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.

Latest from Eric David

DroneDeploy raises $20 million to empower enterprise with aerial drone data

NEWS By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

San Francisco-based drone startup DroneDeploy has just raised an impressive $20 million in Series B funding, bringing the company’s total funding to-date up to $31 million. The latest funding round was led by Scale Venture Partners, along with other contributions from existing investors and …

ZeniMax updates lawsuit against Oculus with claims of IP theft by John Carmack

NEWS By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

It has been two years since multimedia conglomerate ZeniMax Media Inc. first filed its lawsuit against Oculus VR LLC., claiming that the Facebook-owned company stole some of the technology used in the Oculus Rift headset. Now, ZeniMax has updated that lawsuit to …

Pinterest buys “read it later” app Instapaper

NEWS By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

Pinterest, Inc. has announced that it has acquired popular “save for later” app, Instapaper Holdings, Inc., for an undisclosed amount in a bid to beef up its reach and expand what its digital pinboard platform can do. This marks the second time …

Roborace unveils its first self-driving race car

NEWS By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

Autonomous vehicle startup Roborace Ltd. has finally unveiled DevBot, the first working prototype of its self-driving race cars, which are powered by Nvidia Corp’s Drive PX 2 artificial intelligence supercomputer. Backed by London-based venture capital firm Kinetik UK Ltd., Roborace wants to …

Virtual and augmented reality will be a $162B market by 2020, says IDC

NEWS By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

A new report by the International Data Corporation (IDC) claims that virtual and augmented reality will be a $162 billion market within four years, and the company says this would represent an incredible 181.3 percent compound annual growth rate. It is no secret that …

Netgear tries to solve WiFi dead zones with new Orbi WiFi system

NEWS By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

Netgear Inc. has announced a new type of home WiFi system called Orbi that the company says will eliminate WiFi dead zones within the home. Rather than relying on a single router to provide internet access to the entire house, Orbi uses units …

Windows 10 update blamed for breaking webcams

NEWS By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

Microsoft recently released a major Windows 10 Anniversary Update that tweaked and added a number of features, but the update came with a few problems. First, a number of Windows users complained of recurring system freezes, and now it looks like there …

AMD releasing new ‘Zen’ CPUs in 2017, says they outperform Intel Broadwell-E

NEWS By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD) has revealed new details about its upcoming line of CPUs featuring its new Zen processor cores, including a 2017 release date for the new chips. AMD demonstrated a CPU using Zen this week at an event in San Francisco, where …

Facebook and Unity are building a Steam-like PC game platform

NEWS By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

Social media giant Facebook Inc has said that it is building a new standalone gaming service for desktops, but so far, that is basically everything the company has revealed about the new platform. One of the few bits of information Facebook did share about …

Twitter says it closed 235,000 extremist accounts in the past six months

NEWS By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

Twitter says it has shut down over 235,000 accounts with links to extremist organizations within the last six months alone, bringing the total number of suspended accounts up to 360,000 for the last year. But the microblogging service says it still has its …

Eric David

Latest from Eric David

DroneDeploy raises $20 million to empower enterprise with aerial drone data

ZeniMax updates lawsuit against Oculus with claims of IP theft by John Carmack

Pinterest buys “read it later” app Instapaper

Roborace unveils its first self-driving race car

Virtual and augmented reality will be a $162B market by 2020, says IDC

Netgear tries to solve WiFi dead zones with new Orbi WiFi system

Windows 10 update blamed for breaking webcams

AMD releasing new ‘Zen’ CPUs in 2017, says they outperform Intel Broadwell-E

Facebook and Unity are building a Steam-like PC game platform

Twitter says it closed 235,000 extremist accounts in the past six months

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