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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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Deep learning researchers train AI killing machines with ‘Doom’

NEWS By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

We all worry that the robot apocalypse is basically inevitable. Now it looks like researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are looking to speed it along. The researchers are teaching artificial intelligences how to become more efficient killing machines. How? With violent video …

Researchers manage to hack Tesla brakes remotely

NEWS By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

Researchers at Tencent Holdings Ltd.’s Keen Security Lab discovered a critical security hole in Tesla’s Control Area Network (CAN), which allowed them to remotely operate the vehicle’s brakes without ever having to physically interact with it. Although Tesla Motors quickly patched the flaw, Keen …

Microsoft wants to use AI to ‘solve’ cancer

NEWS By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

Microsoft Corp. has announced several new healthcare initiatives that will put the immense power of artificial intelligence and deep learning into the hands of doctors and medical researchers. The goal? To “solve” cancer. In a blog post, Microsoft revealed that it has four separate …

Alphabet buys Urban Engines to supercharge Google Maps

NEWS By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

Alphabet Inc., the parent company of Google, has acquired Urban Engines Inc., a Big Data startup that specializes in using location analytics to power smart urban planning. Urban Engines will be joining the Google Maps team, and while the startup did not …

Amazon building massive Texas wind farm to help power AWS

NEWS By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

Amazon.com Inc. has announced that it will be building a massive wind farm in West Texas as part of its ongoing sustainability initiative. The company, which has been criticized by environmentalists for its power usage, says that the new project will be capable of …

Why Apple’s Tim Cook thinks AR will be bigger than VR

NEWS By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

Until Pokemon GO made headlines as the most successful mobile game of all time, augmented reality (AR) had largely been overshadowed by its more famous cousin, virtual reality (VR), but now Apple CEO Tim Cook says that the tide could shift the other …

Vertebrae raises $10 million to serve up VR ads

NEWS By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

It was only a matter of time until the advertising industry sank its claws into the rapidly growing virtual reality market, and now it looks like Santa Monica-based startup Vertebrae Inc. wants to be one of the first to bring ads to …

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