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

Report: Microsoft will release new HoloLens headset in early 2019

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

Three and a half years after revealing its HoloLens mixed-reality headset, Microsoft Corp. could unveil its successor as soon as the first quarter of next year, according to a new report. Brad Sams at Thurott.com claims to have seen internal papers that …

Google blocks inline installations of Chrome Extensions from third-party websites

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

Google Inc. today announced that it will stop support for inline installations of Chrome extensions from outside websites as part of an ongoing push to improve the security of its market-leading web browser. The announcement, interestingly described as bringing “transparency” to Chrome …

AT&T-Time Warner deal takes online streaming challenge to Netflix and Amazon

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

A U.S. District Court judge today overruled a ban placed by the Department of Justice against AT&T Inc.’s $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner Inc., with the combined company set to create a powerhouse that will challenge online streaming giants Netflix Inc. and Amazon.com …

Weight Watchers: There’s a slim chance hackers obtained exposed password data

CLOUD By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

Weight loss company Weight Watchers International Inc. is claiming that the chances that hackers have stolen data from its servers are slim after it was discovered that the company failed to password-protect a cloud instance used for managing application containers. For something different in …

International operation leads to the arrest of 74 email scammers worldwide

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

U.S. authorities today said they helped in the arrest of 74 people on three continents for hijacking bank transfers using email fraud. The takedown, part of a global crackdown on email scammers, was coordinated under the name of “Operation Wire Wire.” It included …

Apple bans cryptomining in all iOS mobile apps

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

Apple Inc. has declared that it’s not a fan of cryptomining by banning the practice via apps outright even when a user wishes to approve of the process. The policy change was delivered at the same time as the recent Apple Worldwide …

New self-driving features coming to Tesla as NTSB releases interim crash report

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

Troubled electric-car maker Tesla may be set to deliver new, fully autonomous vehicle features later this summer. Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk tweeted Sunday that the company would release a new version of its software with “full self-driving features” in August. The …

Cryptocurrencies plunge after another South Korean exchange reports being hacked

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

Cryptocurrencies have plunged across the board after South Korean exchange Coinrail disclosed it had been hacked on Sunday. Bitcoin led the pack, dropping as much as 12 percent to a three-month low of $6,673.08 before recovering slightly to $6,781.20 as of 10:25 …

R.I.P.: Yahoo Messenger to shut down July 17

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

Yahoo, now a division of Oath Inc., is finally shutting down its Messenger service despite an attempt to resurrect the service a few years back. Launched on March 9, 1998, Yahoo Messenger competed with the likes of MSN Messenger, AIM and ICQ, the …

Microsoft developing a new game streaming device powered by Azure

CLOUD By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

Microsoft Corp. is tapping into its Azure cloud infrastructure team to develop a new game streaming service that will deliver XBox-quality games to a range of other devices. The announcement Sunday of the as-yet unnamed service was made by Phil Spencer, Microsoft’s …

1
…
763
764
765
766
767
…
1076

Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Report: Microsoft will release new HoloLens headset in early 2019

Google blocks inline installations of Chrome Extensions from third-party websites

AT&T-Time Warner deal takes online streaming challenge to Netflix and Amazon

Weight Watchers: There’s a slim chance hackers obtained exposed password data

International operation leads to the arrest of 74 email scammers worldwide

Apple bans cryptomining in all iOS mobile apps

New self-driving features coming to Tesla as NTSB releases interim crash report

Cryptocurrencies plunge after another South Korean exchange reports being hacked

R.I.P.: Yahoo Messenger to shut down July 17

LATEST FROM THECUBE

UPCOMING CUBE EVENTS

RECENT CUBE EVENTS

Infor Velocity Week 2026

Dell AI Data Platform Event: From Ambition to AI at Scale 2026

Fully Connected 2026

NetApp INSIGHT 2026

Oktane 2026

SIGN IN

Bio

Ethics statement

Contact us

Partner with us

Contact us

Guest inquiry