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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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Baidu launches ‘voice first’ keyboard app powered by AI

NEWS By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

Why type on your phone’s tiny keyboard when you can tell it what to type instead? That’s the thinking behind a new keyboard app called TalkType released today by the Chinese web services giant Baidu Inc. The company calls it “the world’s …

Google could face major fines over Android antitrust case in Europe

NEWS By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

Google Inc. parent company Alphabet Inc. could be in serious trouble in the European Union. EU regulators have said that they plan to order the company to cease offering financial incentives to Android phone makers who exclusively pre-install Google Search or Play Store on their …

Look out, Craigslist: Facebook launches Marketplace for local goods

NEWS By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

Social media giant Facebook Inc. is launching a new Craigslist-like storefront called Marketplace, which is aimed at letting people buy and sell things in their local community. According to Facebook, more than 450 million users are already buying and selling things within specialized Facebook Groups, and now the …

Avast completes acquisition of rival antivirus company AVG

NEWS By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

Two months after antivirus company Avast Software s.r.o. announced that it would be acquiring its rival, AVG Technologies N.V., for $1.3 billion, the deal is done. According to Avast, while the buyout of AVG has finally concluded, it will be up to a year before …

Shape Security raises $40M to fight cyber attacks with machine learning

NEWS By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

Mountain View-based cybersecurity firm Shape Security has just secured an impressive $40 million in Series D funding led by the investment arm of the Singapore government’s economic development board (EDBI).  The funding round also included investments from both Google Ventures and Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s …

OpenSesame raises $9M for enterprise elearning, wants to add VR classes

NEWS By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

OpenSesame, an enterprise-focused elearning platform, has just raised $9 million in a Series B funding round led by Altos Ventures. This latest funding round also included continued investment from Partech Ventures, which contributed to OpenSesame’s $8 million Series A funding round in January 2014. …

Google says its photo-reading AI is now 93.9 percent accurate

NEWS By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

Alphabet Inc.’s artificial intelligence research has made it into the headlines a few times over the last few years, for developments such as AlphaGo’s surprise victory over a human Go grand master. Now, the parent company of Google says it has made …

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