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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HTC debuts two new virtual reality headsets at CES

Despite waning interest and declining sales, HTC Corp. is pushing ahead with its virtual reality products, debuting two new headsets at this week’s annual CES consumer electronics show in Las Vegas. Leading the list was the Vive Cosmo, a new consumer-friendly headset pitched as easier use and set up than rival devices. The new headset ...

Report: 2018 was the biggest year for venture capital funding since 2000

2018 saw the highest level of venture capital funding since 2000, the last year of the dot-com bubble, according to the latest PwC/CB Insights MoneyTree Report released early Monday. For the year, $207 billion was invested in 14,247 deals across the global, a 21 percent rise over 2017. Total funding in the U.S. increased by 30 percent for ...

Kraken cryptocurrency exchange says more disclosure requests are a burden

San Francisco-based Bitcoin exchange Kraken today released statistics showing that it’s increasingly burdened by disclosure requests, particularly from U.S. law enforcement and regulators. For 2018, Kraken, formally known as Payward Inc., said it had received 475 law enforcement inquiries from global government agencies, with 315 coming from the U.S., nearly triple the number received in 2017. Although that’s seemingly ...

iSurrender: Apple partners with rival Samsung to bring iTunes to smart TVs

In a surprise move, Apple Inc. has partnered with rival Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. to have the South Korean electronics giant offer support for iTunes on its smart televisions. Marking the first time support for the Apple ecosystem has been offered outside of the company’s own television products, iTunes Movies and TV Shows and Apple AirPlay ...

Blur password manager exposes 2.4M users on misconfigured AWS cloud instance

Abine Inc., the company behind the Blue password manager and DeleteMe privacy-protection service, has admitted that it accidentally exposed data relating to 2.4 million users on a misconfigured Amazon Web Services Inc. instance. The company made the announcement on Dec. 31, making it the last AWS storage issue of the year. The file with user data ...

Former NSA contractor offers to plead guilty to data theft

A former U.S. National Security Agency contractor has offered to plead guilty to one charge of stealing a classified document in an apparent attempt to have multiple other charges dropped. Harold T. Martin III was arrested in August 2016 and was found in possession of 50 terabytes of government data, including documents marked “Secret” and “Top ...

One year on, Vuzix finally starts taking preorders for its Blade smart glasses

Vuzix Corp. has started taking preorders for a pair of smart glasses it first announced at the Consumer Electronics Show in January 2018. Called the Vuzix Blade, the glasses are the company’s first entry into the consumer smart glasses market. They’re also claimed to be the first smart glasses to come with built-in support for ...

BitTorrent announces cryptocurrency that can be used to speed up downloads

BitTorrent Inc. is gaining support for cryptocurrencies as the firm today announced a new token that can be used to speed up downloads. Called the BitTorrent Token, the token runs on the TRON protocol. That’s a blockchain platform designed by the TRON Foundation that competes directly with Ethereum as a platform of choice for cryptocurrencies. TRON ...

‘TheDarkOverlord’ demands bitcoin payment for hacked 9/11 insurance documents

A hacker or hacking group going by the name “TheDarkOverlord” is demanding to be paid bitcoin for access to documents that are allegedly linked to litigation for the 9/11 terror attacks. The documents are said to have come from hacks of insurance companies Hiscox Syndicates and Lloyds of London as well as real estate developer Silverstein Properties. In a ...

Chromecasts, smart TVs targeted in latest PewDiePie promotion hack

The same person behind the hack of printers in December to support YouTube star PewDiePie is back again. The hacker claims to have hacked Chromecasts, smart televisions and Google Home devices. Going by the name of TheHackerGiraffe on Twitter, the hacker used a “CastHack” that took advantage of users who use incorrectly configured routers that have the Universal ...