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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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Pokemon Go too late to save Nintendo from major Q1 loss

NEWS By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

Nintendo Co Ltd’s share prices took a hit earlier this week after it sent a letter to investors clarifying its relationship to Niantic Inc’s phenomenally successful mobile game, Pokemon Go, and now it looks like the company may have more trouble ahead after …

Twitter’s struggles continue after disappointing Q2

NEWS By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

Microblogging platform Twitter Inc. continues to struggle to find its place in a world dominated by the likes of Facebook and Google, and its recent Q2 earnings report revealed that even a bump in user growth may not solve all of its problems. …

Nvidia and AMD face off over workstation graphics chips

NEWS By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

Archrivals Nvidia Corp and Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD) have more or less become the Coke and Pepsi of the computer graphics industry, and this week both companies have announced new lines of high-end graphics processing units (GPUs) designed for use in design workstations. Nvidia Quadro P6000 …

British Columbia outlaws hunting animals with drones

NEWS By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

Humans have had an unfair advantage when hunting animals ever since we first started sharpening sticks tens of thousands of years ago, and our advantages have only gotten stronger thanks to the unending progress of technology. These days, some hunters have even turned to …

US Navy accused of pirating 558k copies of VR software

NEWS By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

German software company Bitmanagement Software GmbH has accused the United States Navy of illegal installing over 558,000 copies of its BS Contact Geo product, a virtual reality program used for visualizing real world geography in a virtual environment. According to Bitmanagement, the company offered a …

Nintendo’s Pokemon GO bubble bursts as stock prices tank

NEWS By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

The phenomenal success of Pokemon GO caused Nintendo Co Ltd’s stock prices to soar to the highest they have been in years, but after the company recently downplayed the earnings it would make from the popular mobile game, those prices went plummeting by 17.7 percent …

EFF lawsuit argues DRM copyright rules are unconstitutional

NEWS By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

It has been nearly two decades since the passage of the (DMCA) , which criminalized the act of copying protected digital content such as DVDs or video games. The DMCA also criminalized the act of circumventing the systems put in place to protect …

Facebook’s solar-powered internet drone takes its first flight

NEWS By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

It has been nearly one year since Facebook first unveiled Aquila, a long duration, solar-powered drone that is capable of beaming down internet access to hard to reach areas that lack their own networks. Today, Facebook announced that it has successfully completed Aquila’s first test …

The last VCR maker has finally called it quits

NEWS By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

It has been roughly 40 years since the first videocassette recorders (VCRs) hit the consumer market, and while they more or less vanished after the arrival of DVDs in the late 1990s, there were still a few stubborn manufacturers who continued making new VCRs even …

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