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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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Bottlenose aims to automate business intelligence with AI

NEWS By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

Los Angeles-based Big Data company Bottlenose Inc. has just revealed the next major iteration of its business intelligence product, Nerve Center. The product uses a combination of real-time data mining, predictive analytics and machine learning to help companies make important decisions related to staffing, …

Facebook lets Messenger chat bots accept payments from users

NEWS By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

Facebook appears committed making Messenger its own full-featured platform, and today the social media giant revealed a number of new features that will give businesses even more ways to interact with consumers directly through the app. The new Messenger Platform v1.2, which Facebook …

DeepMind’s WaveNet uses neural nets to help computers talk to us

NEWS By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

Computers are getting better and better at understanding human speech thanks to powerful data tools like deep learning and neural networks. Now, Google parent company Alphabet Inc.’s DeepMind unit is applying the same tools to the opposite problem: getting computers to talk …

Uber updates Rider Music to help you ignore or annoy your driver

NEWS By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

Uber Technologies Inc. has redesigned its in-app music features, making it easier than ever for riders to tune out their drivers. Anyone who frequently uses ride-hailing services such as Uber has likely run into two kinds of drivers: the silent type who makes the …

Apple unveils iPhone 7, new Apple Watch, AirPods and more

NEWS By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

After weeks of rumors and speculation, Apple has debuted several major new products, including the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, the Apple Watch Series 2 and much more. There were a wide range of announcements at Apple’s high-profile event today, including …

Warner Bros mistakenly files DMCA takedowns for its own websites

NEWS By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

Few industries protect their intellectual property as rabidly as major Hollywood studios do, and many are constantly on the prowl for any online content that infringes on the copyrights, as anyone who uploads a movie clip to YouTube will quickly learn. It turns out that some …

Saildrone raises $14M to expand its fleet of ocean-going drones

NEWS By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

Aerial drones may be getting all of the attention these days, but they are far from the only mobile-robot game in town. Alameda-based drone startup Saildrone Inc. has brought drone technology to the high seas with a fleet of autonomous watercraft, and today the …

Phishing study: More than half of people still click on risky links

NEWS By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

The internet has been around long enough that you would think most people know better than to click an untrustworthy link from someone they do not know, but according to a new study by the Friedrich-Alexander University (FAU) of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, a majority of people …

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