Eric David, Author at SiliconANGLE

Avast acquires rival antivirus suite AVG for $1.3 billion

By Eric David Jul 7, 2016

Avast Software s.r.o., the company behind a popular free antivirus sweet, has just purchased its rival AVG Technologies N.V. for $1.3 billion, proving that the consumer cyber security market is still alive and kicking. According…

Microsoft’s Thinga.Me app lets you organize and share all the crap you buy

By Eric David Jul 6, 2016

Taking conspicuous consumption into the smartphone age, Microsoft has released a new app called Thinga.Me that will let you virtualize all of the junk you own so you can share it with anyone. In an intro video…

Google Chrome will now let you cast tabs without an extension

By Eric David Jul 5, 2016

Streaming your Chrome browser tabs to Chromecast is about to get a lot easier with the new Chrome 51 update, as you will now be able to cast tabs natively without having to download the Google Cast…

China forbids news sites from using social media sources

By Eric David Jul 5, 2016

The internet regulation arm of the Chinese government has issued a warning to online news organizations that they cannot use social media as a source of information in their stories. “All websites should bear…

Google DeepMind and NHS to fight eye disease with machine learning

By Eric David Jul 5, 2016

Google’s DeepMind artificial intelligence project famously used machine learning to develop AlphaGo, a boardgame-playing AI that managed to successfully defeat one of the top Go players in the world. Now, Google is turning its AI…

United Nations says government disruption of internet is a human rights violation

By Eric David Jul 4, 2016

The United Nations recently passed a non-binding resolution that condemns countries that intentionally disrupts their citizens’ internet access, arguing that “the same rights that people have offline must also be protected online, in particular…

Facebook called “a monster” by Israeli security minister

By Eric David Jul 4, 2016

There have been plenty of positive things to come out of the social media revolution over the last 10 years or so, and tools like Facebook and Twitter have been used for everything from…

Twitch’s “Social Eating” category proves the internet will livestream anything

By Eric David Jul 1, 2016

Earlier this week, Amazon’s popular livestreaming platform Twitch launched a new video category called Social Eating, which shows that Twitch can even get weirder than it already is. Here’s how Twitch define’s Social Eating…

Facebook beats Belgian privacy case over tracking offline users

By Eric David Jun 30, 2016

Facebook has no shortage of privacy troubles in Europe, but this week the social media giant has one less problem to worry about after a Belgian court overturned a decision that would have prevented…

Google’s massive undersea cable boosts connection between US and Japan

By Eric David Jun 30, 2016

Today, a consortium of six companies, including Google, is set to activate FASTER, an enormous undersea fiber optic cable that stretches thousands of miles across the Pacific Ocean between the US and Japan. The cable…

Eric David

Avast acquires rival antivirus suite AVG for $1.3 billion

Microsoft’s Thinga.Me app lets you organize and share all the crap you buy

Google Chrome will now let you cast tabs without an extension

China forbids news sites from using social media sources

Google DeepMind and NHS to fight eye disease with machine learning

United Nations says government disruption of internet is a human rights violation

Facebook called “a monster” by Israeli security minister

Facebook beats Belgian privacy case over tracking offline users

Google’s massive undersea cable boosts connection between US and Japan

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