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

Business process management firm Appian goes public, shares up over 25%

CLOUD By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Business process management firm Appian Corp. today sold shares to the public for the first time, going out at $12 a share and seeing an immediate pop of nearly 35 percent. The Reston, Virginia-based company had announced late Wednesday that it raised $75 million …

Bogus Android apps in Google Play store promise WannaCry protection

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Scammers are using the unprecedented global coverage of the spread of the WannaCry ransomware to dupe Android users into downloading bogus apps that pretend to provide protection against it, despite the fact that WannaCry only works on Windows computers. The apps, which according to …

White House proposes law to let law enforcement shoot down drones

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

The Trump administration wants to shoot down drones. While that statement may sound extreme in an era of “fake news,” it actually has a factual basis. The White House is said to be floating proposed legislation that would allow federal law enforcement …

Russian group delivers the first unhackable quantum-safe blockchain

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Quantum computing and the blockchain both get plenty of attention in 2017, and now researchers in Russia have combined the two to create what they claim is an unhackable distributed-ledger platform. The new technology, described as the “first quantum-safe blockchain,” promises to …

Social-justice kumbaya version of Reddit closes after burning through $11M in funding

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Imzy, a site founded by former Reddit Inc. Vice President Dan McComas and pitched as a safe-space alternative to Reddit itself, is folding up shop. McComas posted Wednesday that despite having raised $11 million in venture capital funding, the site was shutting down. …

Harvesting kinetic energy from walking may be the future of authentication

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Newly published research has found that it may be possible to use kinetic energy — that is, the unique signature created by energy created by the body when a person is walking — for authentication instead. The research, published by The Commonwealth …

Bank-backed blockchain development consortium R3 raises $107M

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Blockchain development consortium R3 CEV LLC has raised $107 million as part of an initial two tranches of a Series A funding. The investors are a veritable Who’s Who of financial institutions, including Bank of America Merrill Lynch, HSBC, Wells Fargo and Deutsche …

This company has released a browser to deliver a decentralized Internet

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

While it’s said that art usually imitates life, sometimes life can imitate art. Fans of HBO’s hilarious “Silicon Valley” television series would know that this season has seen character Richard Hendrix attempting to build a decentralized Internet that doesn’t rely on centralized control, and …

Samsung Galaxy S8 iris scanner hacked using basic, everyday items

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Hackers have published details of a method to break the iris-based authentication in Samsung’s Galaxy S8 that involves the use of a number of basic, everyday items. Published by German whitehat hacking group Chaos Computer Club, the hack involves the use of a digital …

Hackers use WannaCry ransomware news to trick users into installing malware

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Hackers are using news coverage of the spread of the WannaCry ransomware to trick people into installing malware pretending to offer a patch to prevent infection. First detected in the United Kingdom, the phishing campaign pretends to be from BT Group plc. …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Business process management firm Appian goes public, shares up over 25%

Bogus Android apps in Google Play store promise WannaCry protection

White House proposes law to let law enforcement shoot down drones

Russian group delivers the first unhackable quantum-safe blockchain

Social-justice kumbaya version of Reddit closes after burning through $11M in funding

Harvesting kinetic energy from walking may be the future of authentication

Bank-backed blockchain development consortium R3 raises $107M

This company has released a browser to deliver a decentralized Internet

Samsung Galaxy S8 iris scanner hacked using basic, everyday items

Hackers use WannaCry ransomware news to trick users into installing malware

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