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

Avast acquires rival antivirus suite AVG for $1.3 billion

NEWS By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

Avast Software s.r.o., the company behind a popular free antivirus sweet, has just purchased its rival AVG Technologies N.V. for $1.3 billion, proving that the consumer cyber security market is still alive and kicking. According to a press release, Avast will be paying …

Microsoft’s Thinga.Me app lets you organize and share all the crap you buy

NEWS By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

Taking conspicuous consumption into the smartphone age, Microsoft has released a new app called Thinga.Me that will let you virtualize all of the junk you own so you can share it with anyone. In an intro video to the new app, Microsoft describes Thinga.Me as …

Google Chrome will now let you cast tabs without an extension

NEWS By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

Streaming your Chrome browser tabs to Chromecast is about to get a lot easier with the new Chrome 51 update, as you will now be able to cast tabs natively without having to download the Google Cast extension. The new update is in the process …

China forbids news sites from using social media sources

NEWS By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

The internet regulation arm of the Chinese government has issued a warning to online news organizations that they cannot use social media as a source of information in their stories. “All websites should bear the key responsibility to further streamline the course …

Google DeepMind and NHS to fight eye disease with machine learning

NEWS By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

Google’s DeepMind artificial intelligence project famously used machine learning to develop AlphaGo, a boardgame-playing AI that managed to successfully defeat one of the top Go players in the world. Now, Google is turning its AI powerhouse toward a somewhat more meaningful cause by …

United Nations says government disruption of internet is a human rights violation

NEWS By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

The United Nations recently passed a non-binding resolution that condemns countries that intentionally disrupts their citizens’ internet access, arguing that “the same rights that people have offline must also be protected online, in particular freedom of expression, which is applicable regardless of …

Facebook called “a monster” by Israeli security minister

NEWS By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

There have been plenty of positive things to come out of the social media revolution over the last 10 years or so, and tools like Facebook and Twitter have been used for everything from tracking family members during a natural disaster to …

Twitch’s “Social Eating” category proves the internet will livestream anything

NEWS By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

Earlier this week, Amazon’s popular livestreaming platform Twitch launched a new video category called Social Eating, which shows that Twitch can even get weirder than it already is. Here’s how Twitch define’s Social Eating on an FAQ page for the new category: …

Facebook beats Belgian privacy case over tracking offline users

NEWS By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

Facebook has no shortage of privacy troubles in Europe, but this week the social media giant has one less problem to worry about after a Belgian court overturned a decision that would have prevented to platform from tracking offline users. Last year, …

Google’s massive undersea cable boosts connection between US and Japan

NEWS By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

Today, a consortium of six companies, including Google, is set to activate FASTER, an enormous undersea fiber optic cable that stretches thousands of miles across the Pacific Ocean between the US and Japan. The cable itself is a bundle of six different fiber …

Eric David

Latest from Eric David

Avast acquires rival antivirus suite AVG for $1.3 billion

Microsoft’s Thinga.Me app lets you organize and share all the crap you buy

Google Chrome will now let you cast tabs without an extension

China forbids news sites from using social media sources

Google DeepMind and NHS to fight eye disease with machine learning

United Nations says government disruption of internet is a human rights violation

Facebook called “a monster” by Israeli security minister

Facebook beats Belgian privacy case over tracking offline users

Google’s massive undersea cable boosts connection between US and Japan

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