Eric David, Author at SiliconANGLE

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Facebook tweaks news feed to prioritize local news

By Eric David Jan 29, 2018

Facebook Inc. has more changes in store for news feed as part of its ongoing efforts to make Facebook less terrible for mental health. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg announced earlier this month that Facebook will rank user posts higher…

Cloud

Microsoft acquires PlayFab to make Azure cloud service better for online games

By Eric David Jan 29, 2018

Microsoft Corp.’s Azure cloud platform is about to get more interesting for game developers, as the company announced today that it has acquired PlayFab Inc., a startup that provides a backend platform for online games. The terms of…

Infra

In a surprise alternative to an IPO, Dell may consider selling itself to its subsidiary VMware

By Eric David Jan 29, 2018

Reports surfaced last week that Dell Technologies Inc. might become a publicly traded company once again, allowing it to buy up the remaining shares of VMware Inc. it doesn’t hold. Now, it appears that…

Emerging Tech

Didi Chuxing opens AI lab in Beijing to work on smart traffic technology

By Eric David Jan 26, 2018

Didi Chuxing Technology Co. Ltd., China’s biggest ride-hailing company, announced today that it has opened an artificial intelligence lab in Beijing that will work on technology for the company’s smart traffic initiative. Led by Didi Vice…

Emerging Tech

DeepMind’s Psychlab uses psychology to understand AI behaviors

By Eric David Jan 26, 2018

We have seen a few examples of rogue artificial intelligence in the last few years, from the Facebook AI that invented its own language to Microsoft Corp.’s surprisingly racist chatbot. It is not always easy…

Emerging Tech

Facebook built an AI that enables full-body augmented reality experiences

By Eric David Jan 25, 2018

Augmented reality apps have been tracking and altering faces for years, but Facebook Inc. wants to take the technology one step further by developing tools that can layer AR content over an entire person. The…

Emerging Tech

Apple’s updated ARKit augmented reality software platform will finally see walls

By Eric David Jan 24, 2018

Apple Inc. is opening up some new possibilities for augmented reality developers with its next ARKit update, which the company revealed today. Announced in June at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference, ARKit bundles several AR…

Emerging Tech

Nexar raises $30M to protect drivers with its AI-powered dashcam app

By Eric David Jan 24, 2018

Israel-based startup Nexar believes that we don’t have to wait for the self-driving car revolution to make the roads safer with artificial intelligence. Today the company announced that it has raised $30 million in…

Infra

EU fines Qualcomm $1.2B for paying Apple to ignore rival chipmakers

By Eric David Jan 24, 2018

The European Commission early today ordered mobile chipmaker Qualcomm Technologies Inc. to pay a 997 million euro ($1.23 billion) fine for allegedly violating EU antitrust laws. The EU’s complaint centers on an exclusivity deal Qualcomm made with Apple Inc., which was in…

Emerging Tech

Facebook invents ‘flick’ time units for visual effects creators

By Eric David Jan 23, 2018

Engineers at Facebook Inc.-owned Oculus VR have invented “flicks,” new units of time that could make life easier for visual effects creators working in film, video games and other media. A flick, which is somehow short…

Eric David

Microsoft acquires PlayFab to make Azure cloud service better for online games

In a surprise alternative to an IPO, Dell may consider selling itself to its subsidiary VMware

Didi Chuxing opens AI lab in Beijing to work on smart traffic technology

DeepMind’s Psychlab uses psychology to understand AI behaviors

Facebook built an AI that enables full-body augmented reality experiences

Apple’s updated ARKit augmented reality software platform will finally see walls

Nexar raises $30M to protect drivers with its AI-powered dashcam app

EU fines Qualcomm $1.2B for paying Apple to ignore rival chipmakers

Facebook invents ‘flick’ time units for visual effects creators

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