Duncan Riley

Duncan Riley is a senior writer at SiliconANGLE covering Startups, Bitcoin, and the Internet of Things. Duncan is a co-founder of VC funded media company B5Media and founder of news site The Inquisitr, and was a senior writer at TechCrunch in its earlier days. Tips? Press releases? Intersting startup? email: duncan@nichenet.com.au or contact Duncan on Twitter @duncanriley

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In a surprise, Sony debuts an electric vehicle prototype at CES

In a complete surprise, Sony Corp. debuted an electric vehicle prototype Tuesday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The Vision-S sedan is an electric vehicle built by the electronics giant in conjunction with Robert Bosch GmbH, Continental AG, Magna International Inc. and Nvidia Corp. The vehicle is claimed to deliver 544 horsepower through ...

Mimecast buys Israeli cybersecurity startup Segasec Labs

Email security provider Mimecast Ltd. has acquired Israeli cybersecurity startup Segasec Labs Ltd. for an undisclosed price. The company had raised $5 million in venture capital from investors, including Innogy Innovation Hub. Founded in 2017, Segasec offers a solution aimed at protecting companies from phishing, pharming (an attack that redirects a website’s traffic to another), fake site, ...

Insight Partners snaps up IoT security startup Armis for $1.1B

Insight Partners today said it has acquired “internet of things” security startup Armis Inc. for $1.1 billion in a all-cash deal. Founded in 2015, Armis offers an agentless IoT security solution that lets enterprises see and control any device or network. Its security platform is designed to address a threat landscape of unmanaged and IoT devices ...

Booking data stolen from Japanese short-time love hotel booking service HappyHotel

Japanese short-time love hotel search engine HappyHotel has suffered a data breach in which the details of clients were accessed by unknown hackers. The breach occurred on Dec. 22, with usernames, passwords, date of birth, phone numbers and home addresses of customers all being stolen. “Love hotels” are accommodations where people take others, often prostitutes, for ...

Intel makes a splash at CES with AI, autonomous driving tech and Tiger Lake chips

Intel Corp. made a splash at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas late Monday afternoon with a range of announcements led by breakthroughs in artificial intelligence. The AI announcement was aimed straight at the current tech battlefield of autonomous-vehicle technology. After emerging during the 2010s, it’s now potentially set to deliver in the 2020s, ...

Ring announces new Control Center in response to security concerns

Ring LLC has added new security features to its devices as it faces a lawsuit from users who had their internet-connected home security cameras hacked after they reused the same credentials across multiple sites. The new initiatives from the Amazon.com Inc.-owned company include the introduction of a new Control Center that allows users to manage ...

DJI spinoff Livox offers new lidar technology for autonomous driving apps

Dà-Jiāng Innovations Science and Technology Co. Ltd., better known as drone company DJI, today announced a new spinoff company called Livox Technology Co. Ltd. that specializes in lidar technology for autonomous driving applications. Livox debuts with two new lidar sensors that are claimed to use a groundbreaking scanning method to deliver better sensing performance at ...

Hushmesh debuts password-free login solution built on authentication trust network

Hushmesh Inc., a public benefit corporation that is building an authentication trust network “Mesh” aimed at tackling identity fraud and data breaches, is demonstrating its new product at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week. The Hushmesh Mesh is designed to enable digital interactions between people and organizations without targeting a specific application ...

Potential cyberwar begins as Iran takes down US government website

A hacking group that claims to be working for the Iranian government today hacked a U.S. government website in what may be the first strike in a new cyberwar between the two countries. The hack, which targeted the U.S. Federal Depository Library Program, was claimed by those behind it to be a revenge attack for a ...

Samsung Galaxy Unpacked scheduled for Feb. 11: Here’s what to expect

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has scheduled its next Galaxy Unpacked event for Feb. 11 in San Francisco. The annual event usually marks the announcement of the latest in Samsung’s flagship Galaxy phones, with the S11 initially expected to be launched at the event. But the new phones are actually reported to be called the S20, ...