Eric David, Author at SiliconANGLE

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Google’s Uptime app lets you watch YouTube with friends

By Eric David Mar 13, 2017

Area 120, Google Inc.’s in-house startup incubator, has launched a new app called Uptime that allows users to watch and react to YouTube videos together, making the popular video streaming site a more social…

Emerging Tech

Even with AI, people are still the driving force of innovation

By Eric David Mar 10, 2017

The dream of artificial intelligence has been alive for about as long as we have had computers, if not longer, and thanks to recent advancements in hardware and machine learning, that dream is now more…

Emerging Tech

Chowbotics raises $5M to expand its robot chef business

By Eric David Mar 9, 2017

Chowbotics, a robotics startup that specializes in automated food preparation, announced today that it has raised $5 million in Series A funding from Techstars Ventures, Foundry Group, Galvanize Ventures and the Geekdom Fund. The company, which is…

Emerging Tech

Facebook launches 360 video and photo app for Samsung Gear VR

By Eric David Mar 8, 2017

Facebook Inc. today announced the launch of Facebook 360, an immersive photo and video app for the Samsung Gear VR, a mobile virtual reality headset that is powered by technology from the Facebook-owned Oculus…

Emerging Tech

Google acquires Kaggle, a data science competition platform

By Eric David Mar 8, 2017

Updated Google Inc. today revealed that it’s acquiring Kaggle Inc., a data science community that hosts machine learning competitions and offers collaboration tools for data scientists. Founded in 2011 in San Francisco, Kaggle calls…

Emerging Tech

Doppler Labs accuses Bose of copying its augmented hearing tech

By Eric David Mar 7, 2017

Doppler Labs Inc., maker of the Here One smart earbuds, has filed a lawsuit against Bose Corp. claiming that the audio electronics company’s Hearphones copy the design and features of Doppler’s own products. Founded in…

Emerging Tech

AI makes Google Translate better at Hindi, Russian and Vietnamese

By Eric David Mar 6, 2017

Google Inc. announced in November that it would be using an artificial intelligence technique called neural machine translation to completely change the way Google Translate understands languages, with the ultimate goal of creating a universal language…

Apps

Shazam hopes to make augmented reality an advertising venue

By Eric David Mar 6, 2017

For years, many have hoped augmented reality would give us the flashy science fiction future we have always wanted. But for now, it seems that we will have to settle for advertising mini-games. Today, song…

Apps

Snap’s shares soar in IPO, but analysts are more skeptical than investors

By Eric David Mar 2, 2017

Today marks the first day of stock trading for Snap Inc., and the Snapchat app maker came out swinging with a more than 40 percent boost over its initial public offering price. Despite Snap’s early…

Emerging Tech

Facebook turns to AI to offer support to suicidal users

By Eric David Mar 1, 2017

There is no shortage of studies linking social media use with depression, but Facebook Inc. believes that social media can also be used to promote mental health. Today the company announced a few new features aimed at tackling…

Eric David

Google’s Uptime app lets you watch YouTube with friends

Chowbotics raises $5M to expand its robot chef business

Google acquires Kaggle, a data science competition platform

Doppler Labs accuses Bose of copying its augmented hearing tech

AI makes Google Translate better at Hindi, Russian and Vietnamese

Shazam hopes to make augmented reality an advertising venue

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