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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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True Fit raises $55M to personalize clothes shopping with AI

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Buying clothes online can be tricky since you can’t try them on before you order them, and because actual sizes can vary between brands and styles, it is nearly impossible to predict how something will actually look and feel in person. Boston startup True Fit Corp. says its data …

Google’s Arts & Culture app uses AI to find your lookalike in famous art

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Google LLC has come up with a clever way to combine its face recognition technology with its educational museum app, Google Arts & Culture. Using artificial intelligence, the app’s newest update can help museum visitors find their lookalike in nearby paintings, sculptures and other artwork. …

Google removed dozens of Play Store games that showed adult ads to kids

APPS By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Google LLC has pulled around 60 games from the Play Store after learning that they were infected with malware that displayed pornographic ads. Cybersecurity company Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. discovered the malware, which it named “AdultSwine,” and informed Google about the infected games, some …

Russian hackers are heavily targeting the US Senate, says Trend Micro

INFRA By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

The same Russian hackers that broke into the Democratic National Convention in 2016 are also responsible for numerous cyberattacks against the U.S. Senate and other government groups, according to a new report released today by cybersecurity firm Trend Micro Inc. Trend Micro attributed multiple …

A WhatsApp security flaw let researchers snoop on group chat messages

INFRA By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

A team of German cryptographers say they have found a flaw in WhatsApp’s security that allowed them to bypass the chat app’s end-to-end encryption and eavesdrop on group chat messages. The team, which hails from Ruhr University Bochum in Germany, presented their find in a research …

Unbabel raises $23M for AI translations backed up by human editors

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Artificial intelligence may eventually become the perfect universal translator, but even though machine translation may be lightning fast, it still falls behind the accuracy of human translators. Portuguese startup Unbabel believes its “AI-powered, human-refined” translations combine the best of both worlds. Today …

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