Robert Pleasant

Robert Pleasant is a writer and unabashed nerd, contributing news coverage and editorial articles to SiliconANGLE. His experience includes writing articles for websites such as UCStrategies, G33k-HQ, and Green Tea Graffiti, covering a range of subjects in technology, gaming, and entertainment. Robert, known to his friends as Robbie, earned his degree in Creative Writing from University of California, Santa Cruz, before getting into the tech news field, and in addition to the writing he does for SiliconANGLE, enjoys creating original comedic stories in his downtime.

Latest from Robert Pleasant

ID@XBox: Trying out the Xbox game demos at #GDC16

NEWS By ROBERT PLEASANT10 YEARS AGO

Attendees to the 2016 Game Developer Conference (GDC) in San Francisco were privy to tests and sneak previews of several upcoming games. Microsoft happened to have a nice large section set up for its Xbox One, where players could try out a …

Ubisoft’s “Eagle Flight” soars at #GDC

NEWS By ROBERT PLEASANT10 YEARS AGO

I no longer need to wonder what it feels like to be a bird of prey in flight. For I have experienced it firsthand. Or at least as firsthand as virtual reality can currently allow. Ubisoft has a hangout spot at the …

Running the VR gauntlet at #GDC: Hands on virtual reality reviews

NEWS By ROBERT PLEASANT10 YEARS AGO

Gamers and developers agree: virtual reality (VR) is the next step in immersive gaming. Until the day we get holo-chambers with infinite space for movement, it’s the best we’re going to get as well. But at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in …

Hands on: Virtual reality with Intel RealSense at #GDC 2016

NEWS By ROBERT PLEASANT10 YEARS AGO

The Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco is just picking up, and already it’s clear that virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) will be big focuses of the show. So one would be remiss to visit the conference and not …

Painful irony: DDos protection provider suffers data breach

NEWS By ROBERT PLEASANT10 YEARS AGO

It would be a painful irony for a company specializing in cyber security to get hacked. While that may be the case for Staminus Communications, it focuses on providing protection against DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks, rather than the hack that …

Rosen Hotels hack found over a year later

NEWS By ROBERT PLEASANT10 YEARS AGO

Nothing makes a good hotel stay turn sour than unexpected charges. While that annoying “cleaning fee” the hotel stacked on your bill because they insisted someone in the room was smoking even though you know for a fact no one did may …

What the FCC’s new web privacy proposal means for you

NEWS By ROBERT PLEASANT10 YEARS AGO

It’s no stretch to say that online privacy is important to everyone, no matter what they use the Internet for. Yet at the same time, it’s one of the hardest places to maintain a high level of privacy, even with every precaution. …

Data Breach Report highlights the real security threats with knowledge from experience

NEWS By ROBERT PLEASANT10 YEARS AGO

Following its Data Breach Investigations Report earlier this month, Verizon Enterprise has released the Data Breach Digest, detailing and dissecting data breach cases for our education. In 2015 alone, Verizon investigated more than 500 cases pertaining to cyber security, sorted them by …

Financial sector most at risk for internal breaches, says new security report

NEWS By ROBERT PLEASANT10 YEARS AGO

As we enjoy these early days of March, it’s important to look back and see what we can learn from the past month. In some cases, learn just how many data breaches companies have encountered and had to deal with in that …

Oracle accelerates analytics applications with new API and developer kit

NEWS By ROBERT PLEASANT10 YEARS AGO

Oracle is after developers with a new tool, unveiled today. The company just released a free and open API and developer kit, made for its Data Analytics Accelerator (DAX) in SPARC processors, allowing for fast and high performance data analytics and new …

Robert Pleasant

Latest from Robert Pleasant

ID@XBox: Trying out the Xbox game demos at #GDC16

Ubisoft’s “Eagle Flight” soars at #GDC

Running the VR gauntlet at #GDC: Hands on virtual reality reviews

Hands on: Virtual reality with Intel RealSense at #GDC 2016

Painful irony: DDos protection provider suffers data breach

Rosen Hotels hack found over a year later

What the FCC’s new web privacy proposal means for you

Financial sector most at risk for internal breaches, says new security report

Oracle accelerates analytics applications with new API and developer kit

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