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

Latest from Duncan Riley

Tesla rolling out new navigation feature for Autopilot

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

Tesla Inc. has started rolling out an update to version 9.0 of its software that delivers navigation options to its Autopilot feature. The Navigate on Autopilot service, available to all Tesla vehicles in the U.S. fitted with enhanced Autopilot or full self-driving capability …

Report: Facebook is developing a clone of the TikTok short-video app

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

Facebook Inc. is developing a new standalone app called “Lasso” to challenge TikTok, a wildly popular Chinese app that has started to go viral in the West. Facebook is said to be developing the app in an attempt to “win back the attention …

Hong Kong flag carrier Cathay Pacific hacked and 9.4M customer records stolen

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd., the flag carrier of Hong Kong, is the latest airline to be hacked, with 9.4 million customer records stolen. Data stolen in the hack, which occurred in March but only disclosed now, included passenger names, nationality, date of …

Despite fall in active users, Twitter books improved profit

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

Twitter Inc. lost active users in its last quarter but still managed to book an improved profit as the microblogging platform continues to plow forward post an ongoing purge of alleged Russian bots. Twitter booked a profit of $163 million in the third quarter, …

Check Point acquires Israeli cloud security startup Dome9 for $175M

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

Cybersecurity firm Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. today acquired Israeli cloud security startup Dome9 Security Inc. to enhance its cloud security offering. Although the price of the acquisition was not disclosed, The Times of Israel claimed the deal came in at $175 million in cash …

In call for new privacy laws, Apple’s Tim Cook slams ‘data-industrial complex’

POLICY By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook has channeled former U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower in a rallying call for the introduction of new data privacy laws to protect consumers. Speaking at a privacy conference in Brussels Wednesday, Cook (pictured) railed against …

Japan gives local cryptocurrency industry self-regulatory status

BLOCKCHAIN By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

Japan’s Financial Services Agency today granted the local cryptocurrency industry self-regulatory status, giving policing powers to an association backed by the industry. The Japan Virtual Currency Exchange Association has been bestowed the status of “certified fund settlement business association,” giving it the right …

Report: GM self-driving cars have problems detecting whether an object is moving

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

Developing self-driving cars is hard. That’s the main takeaway from the news today that General Motors Co. is the latest company to stumble in autonomous vehicle efforts. According to Reuters, cars developed by GM’s Cruise unit, which first started on-street testing in …

Study finds nearly one in five may not vote in midterms on security concerns

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

In a surprising finding ahead of the U.S. midterm elections Nov. 6, a survey has found that nearly one in five people may not vote due to security concerns with voting systems. The finding comes from the 2018 Unisys Security Index, which compiles the …

Washington ISP exposes network keys, passwords on misconfigured cloud service

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

A Washington internet service provider is the latest company found to have exposed confidential data via a misconfigured Amazon Web Services instance, or virtual server. But in a serious twist to a common tale, the data was far more than simple customer details. …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Tesla rolling out new navigation feature for Autopilot

Report: Facebook is developing a clone of the TikTok short-video app

Hong Kong flag carrier Cathay Pacific hacked and 9.4M customer records stolen

Despite fall in active users, Twitter books improved profit

Japan gives local cryptocurrency industry self-regulatory status

Report: GM self-driving cars have problems detecting whether an object is moving

Study finds nearly one in five may not vote in midterms on security concerns

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