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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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Here’s why Facebook is betting big on artificial intelligence

As Facebook Inc. has expanded its scope far beyond the realm of social media in the last few years, no area is arguably more important than its recent push into artificial intelligence research. This week, Facebook Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer outlined some of the …

Google rejects EU antitrust claims against its ad practices

Google Inc. has been facing harsh antitrust accusations in the European Union for several years, and today Kent Walker, senior vice president and general counsel at Google, issued a strongly worded rejection of the EU’s claims, calling them “wrong as a matter …

Google’s DeepMind to use ‘messy’ world of StarCraft for AI research

Google’s DeepMind is teaming up with Blizzard Entertainment Inc. to open up the world of the game StarCraft II to artificial intelligence researchers. DeepMind Staff Research Scientist Oriol Vinyals (above) announced the new partnership today during Blizzcon, Blizzard’s annual convention held in Anaheim, Calif. …

Twilio beats third-quarter predictions but shares fall

Cloud communications company Twilio Inc. did better than expected in its third quarter, but investors weren’t cheering. In its second earnings report since going public in June, the company posted a loss of 4 cents per share on $71.5 million in revenues, a year-on-year increase …

Message.io wants to be a universal translator for chatbots

Austin, Texas-based startup and Y Combinator alum Message.io has just launched a private beta test for its bot syndication service that allows developers to deploy their bots across multiple platforms with no code changes required. Chatbots are powerful automation tools that give …

MIT uses deep learning to tap into our nightmares

The robot apocalypse sounds scary enough by itself, but a team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation seem determined to make the eventual AI uprising truly terrifying. Using deep learning, the researchers are …

UK court says Uber drivers are employees, not contractors

A London employment tribunal has ruled that Uber Technologies Inc. must reclassify two of its drivers as employees rather than freelancers, in a landmark ruling that could put the ride hailing service’s future in the United Kingdom in jeopardy. Uber’s entire business model is …

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