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

Facebook tweaks news feed to prioritize local news

APPS By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Facebook Inc. has more changes in store for news feed as part of its ongoing efforts to make Facebook less terrible for mental health. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg announced earlier this month that Facebook will rank user posts higher than posts shared by businesses, and today he said that …

Microsoft acquires PlayFab to make Azure cloud service better for online games

CLOUD By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Microsoft Corp.’s Azure cloud platform is about to get more interesting for game developers, as the company announced today that it has acquired PlayFab Inc., a startup that provides a backend platform for online games. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, but PlayFab has raised at …

In a surprise alternative to an IPO, Dell may consider selling itself to its subsidiary VMware

INFRA By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Reports surfaced last week that Dell Technologies Inc. might become a publicly traded company once again, allowing it to buy up the remaining shares of VMware Inc. it doesn’t hold. Now, it appears that Dell might be considering something of a reverse …

Didi Chuxing opens AI lab in Beijing to work on smart traffic technology

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Didi Chuxing Technology Co. Ltd., China’s biggest ride-hailing company, announced today that it has opened an artificial intelligence lab in Beijing that will work on technology for the company’s smart traffic initiative. Led by Didi Vice President and the University of Michigan professor Ye …

DeepMind’s Psychlab uses psychology to understand AI behaviors

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

We have seen a few examples of rogue artificial intelligence in the last few years, from the Facebook AI that invented its own language to Microsoft Corp.’s surprisingly racist chatbot. It is not always easy to understand why an AI does the things …

Facebook built an AI that enables full-body augmented reality experiences

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Augmented reality apps have been tracking and altering faces for years, but Facebook Inc. wants to take the technology one step further by developing tools that can layer AR content over an entire person. The Facebook AI Camera Team wrote on the company’s …

Apple’s updated ARKit augmented reality software platform will finally see walls

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Apple Inc. is opening up some new possibilities for augmented reality developers with its next ARKit update, which the company revealed today. Announced in June at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference, ARKit bundles several AR creation tools into a single framework, making it …

Nexar raises $30M to protect drivers with its AI-powered dashcam app

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Israel-based startup Nexar believes that we don’t have to wait for the self-driving car revolution to make the roads safer with artificial intelligence. Today the company announced that it has raised $30 million in funding for its AI-powered dashcam app. The Series …

EU fines Qualcomm $1.2B for paying Apple to ignore rival chipmakers

INFRA By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

The European Commission early today ordered mobile chipmaker Qualcomm Technologies Inc. to pay a 997 million euro ($1.23 billion) fine for allegedly violating EU antitrust laws. The EU’s complaint centers on an exclusivity deal Qualcomm made with Apple Inc., which was in effect from 2011 through 2016. According to the commission, …

Facebook invents ‘flick’ time units for visual effects creators

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Engineers at Facebook Inc.-owned Oculus VR have invented “flicks,” new units of time that could make life easier for visual effects creators working in film, video games and other media. A flick, which is somehow short for “frame tick,” is slightly longer than a nanosecond …

Eric David

Latest from Eric David

Microsoft acquires PlayFab to make Azure cloud service better for online games

In a surprise alternative to an IPO, Dell may consider selling itself to its subsidiary VMware

Didi Chuxing opens AI lab in Beijing to work on smart traffic technology

DeepMind’s Psychlab uses psychology to understand AI behaviors

Facebook built an AI that enables full-body augmented reality experiences

Apple’s updated ARKit augmented reality software platform will finally see walls

Nexar raises $30M to protect drivers with its AI-powered dashcam app

EU fines Qualcomm $1.2B for paying Apple to ignore rival chipmakers

Facebook invents ‘flick’ time units for visual effects creators

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