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Eric David

Eric David is a staff writer for SiliconANGLE, covering the latest trends in social media and gaming. He is an avid gamer and enjoys writing about innovations in the video game industry and gaming culture in general. Eric graduated from the University of Texas at Dallas, receiving major honors for his thesis "A Culture of Heresy: Explaining the Resiliency of Catharism and the Church's Response," which is every bit as exciting as it sounds. Eric lives in Dallas, Texas with his wife, dog and gaming PC.

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Google to boost Cuba’s Internet speed with local servers

INFRA By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

Alphabet Inc.’s Google has hastily completed a new deal with Cuba’s state-run telecom that will bring high-speed Internet servers to the island nation. According to Google, the deal will greatly improve speeds for many of Cuba’s Internet users, particularly for Google’s services. …

Amazon’s Twitch chat gets nicer with AI-powered moderation

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

Amazon.com Inc.-owned livestreaming platform Twitch announced today that it will be introducing a new moderation tool called AutoMod, which combines machine learning and natural language processing to make Twitch chat a little bit nicer. Like most online communities, Twitch deals with its share …

Slack forms partnership with Google for native Drive support

APPS By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

Hot on the heels of Facebook Inc.’s announcement about app integrations for Workplace, Slack Technologies Inc. announced today that it has formed a partnership with Google Inc. to bring native Google Drive support to Slack. “Turns out many of you love using …

Google’s DeepMind open-sources its 3D AI training platform

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

DeepMind, the Google Inc.-owned machine learning firm behind AlphaGo, has announced that it is open-sourcing DeepMind Lab, a gamelike platform aimed at training artificial intelligences to navigate and interact with 3D environments. According to DeepMind, the training framework’s 3D environment is better for …

Facebook looks to AI to solve its fake news problem

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

A few weeks ago, Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg downplayed complaints about fake news on Facebook, claiming that “more than 99 percent of what people see is authentic.” Now it seems that Facebook is taking those complaints a little more seriously. Company …

Reuters algorithm tracks and sources breaking news on Twitter

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

International news organization Reuters revealed this week that it has been working on its own algorithm to catch breaking news on Twitter, giving journalists detailed alerts as events unfold. According to Reg Chua, executive editor for data and innovation at Reuters, the algorithm …

Adblock Plus still legal in Germany — for now

APPS By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

Adblock Plus will be safe for another day in Germany, as Eyeo GmbH, the company behind the ad-blocking browser extension, has won its sixth court case against a publisher that tried to shut it down. This time, Eyeo’s opponent was Spiegel Online, …

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