Eric David, Author at SiliconANGLE

Big Data

Facebook says government requests for user data are on the rise

By Eric David Dec 21, 2016

Facebook Inc. today revealed its numbers on government requests for user data for the first half of 2016, and not surprisingly, those requests are on the rise. According to Facebook, the number of government data requests…

Apps

The year of Pokemon Go: Mobile dominated the $91B game industry in 2016

By Eric David Dec 21, 2016

Driven in part by the truly mobile game Pokemon Go, the video game industry brought in over $91 billion in revenue in 2016, nearly half of which came from mobile games. According to a…

Apps

EU accuses Facebook of ‘misleading information’ during WhatsApp buy

By Eric David Dec 20, 2016

Facebook Inc. is no stranger to scrutiny in the European Union, and now it looks like the social network may once again be caught in the crosshairs of the European Commission. This week, the…

Emerging Tech

Lumus raises $45M to push its augmented reality displays

By Eric David Dec 19, 2016

Things are starting to heat up in augmented reality, and with recent stumbles from juggernauts like Magic Leap, it is still anyone’s race. That is good news for companies like Israel-based AR startup Lumus…

Emerging Tech

Mark Zuckerberg’s Jarvis AI comes a long way – but still has a long way to go

By Eric David Dec 19, 2016

At the beginning of the year, Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said that one of his goals for 2016 would be to develop a general purpose AI that could run his life “kind of…

Emerging Tech

Microsoft launches AI network to fight blindness in India

By Eric David Dec 19, 2016

Machine learning may not be able to solve all of our problems just yet, but it is starting to make significant strides in improving healthcare. This week, Microsoft Corp. and India’s L V Prasad…

Apps

Facebook says its post metrics were wrong again

By Eric David Dec 16, 2016

Facebook Inc. offers advertisers a wide range of metrics about the users who see and interact with their posts, but this week the company revealed that some of those numbers may have been a bit…

Apps

Move over, Facebook: Reddit has a fake news problem too

By Eric David Dec 15, 2016

Reddit is seemingly one of the most democratic communities on the web, allowing users to vote up good content while voting down bad content and spam. But this week, journalists Phil Harper and Jay…

Emerging Tech

Europe activates its GPS rival, Galileo

By Eric David Dec 15, 2016

As anyone who got caught up in the Pokemon Go craze this summer can tell you, the Global Positioning Satellite system is still not as accurate as we would like. That’s about to change in…

Emerging Tech

Researchers teach an AI to compose music like Bach’s

By Eric David Dec 14, 2016

First artificial intelligence conquered board games. Now, it’s going after classical music. In yet another example that no job is safe from automation, Gaetan Hadjeres and Francois Pachet from the Sony Computer Science Laboratories in…

Eric David

The year of Pokemon Go: Mobile dominated the $91B game industry in 2016

Lumus raises $45M to push its augmented reality displays

Mark Zuckerberg’s Jarvis AI comes a long way – but still has a long way to go

Microsoft launches AI network to fight blindness in India

Facebook says its post metrics were wrong again

Move over, Facebook: Reddit has a fake news problem too

Europe activates its GPS rival, Galileo

Researchers teach an AI to compose music like Bach’s

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