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

Baidu launches new operating system dedicated to conversational AI

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Chinese search giant Baidu Inc. today officially launched a new operating system dedicated to advancing conversational artificial intelligence capabilities, as the company aims to take on similar efforts from competitors such as Google LLC. Called the “Duer OS Prometheus Project,” the operating system is …

Wikileaks release reveals CIA impersonated Kaspersky Lab while hacking people

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

The Central Intelligence Agency created and used code that pretended to be from Kaspersky Lab while hacking people, a big twist on what has been an ongoing saga of allegations of Kaspersky colluding with the Russian government, according to the latest release by …

Apple promises fix for iPhone X becoming unresponsive in cold weather

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Apple Inc. is promising to fix a problem with its recently released iPhone X after reports emerged that that phone doesn’t work in cold temperatures. Dubbed “Coldgate” by Apple fanboy sites, the problem was first reported on Reddit by a user who …

Shares in Chinese search engine Sogou rise only 4% after NYSE debut

CLOUD By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Shares in Chinese search engine provider Sogou Inc. didn’t pop on their debut on the New York Stock Exchange Thursday after the company managed to raise $540 million in its initial public offering. Sogou is a spinoff from Sohu.com Inc., the Chinese internet …

Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection comes to iOS, macOS, Android and Linux

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

In a surprising move, users across multiple platforms will soon have access to the Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection service after Microsoft Corp. announced new partnerships to deliver the service to other operating systems. Microsoft is teaming up with Bitdefender s.r.o, Lookout Inc. and Ziften …

Bitcoin price drops after proposed fork gets canned for lack of support

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

The price of bitcoin dropped in trading Wednesday after a plan for a proposed fork in the cryptocurrency that would have seen investors credited with an additional bitcoin-related cyptocurrency were dropped thanks to a lack of support. Called SegWit2x, the proposed fork would …

China’s Tencent takes 12% stake in Snap – will it go all the way?

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Shares in Snap Inc. bounced somewhat in trading Wednesday after a quarterly Securities and Exchange Commission filing disclosed that Chinese investment giant Tencent Holdings Ltd. had acquired a 12 percent stake in the company. Tencent, which is best known as the owner of Chinese …

Report: Apple’s AR headset progressing toward a 2020 release

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Apple Inc.’s long-rumored desire to bring an augmented reality headset to market seems to be progressing, as a new report said today that the headset now has a name, an operating system and a planned release date. Bloomberg claimed that the Apple augmented …

Proofpoint snaps up messaging security firm Cloudmark for $110M

CLOUD By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Cybersecurity firm Proofpoint Inc. today announced a $110 million all-cash deal to acquire Cloudmark Inc., a San Francisco-based messaging security and threat intelligence software provider for internet service providers and mobile carriers. Founded in 2001, Cloudmark builds messaging security software designed to protect communications …

Triggered wallet vulnerability freezes $280M in Ethereum holdings

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

A security vulnerability in a popular wallet used to store the Ethereum cryptocurrency has been triggered, freezing more than $280 million worth of ETH in the process with no fix currently in sight. The triggered vulnerability involves code in wallets from Parity that …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Baidu launches new operating system dedicated to conversational AI

Wikileaks release reveals CIA impersonated Kaspersky Lab while hacking people

Apple promises fix for iPhone X becoming unresponsive in cold weather

Shares in Chinese search engine Sogou rise only 4% after NYSE debut

Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection comes to iOS, macOS, Android and Linux

Bitcoin price drops after proposed fork gets canned for lack of support

China’s Tencent takes 12% stake in Snap – will it go all the way?

Report: Apple’s AR headset progressing toward a 2020 release

Proofpoint snaps up messaging security firm Cloudmark for $110M

Triggered wallet vulnerability freezes $280M in Ethereum holdings

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