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

New Bluetooth standard supports mesh networking for the Internet of Things

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group has announced a new standard for the wireless technology that will allow Internet of Things devices to talk to each other in a mesh network. Mesh networking is a network of connected devices where each node, in …

Mira Prism headset to deliver augmented reality to iPhone users for just $99

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Apple Inc. iPhone users are about to get their first augmented-reality headset, as a Los Angeles company announced Tuesday it plans to launch a product that costs just $99. The company goes by the name of Mira Labs Inc. and the product …

Google rolls out new security alerts for G Suite and App Scripts

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Google Inc. today rolled out a new security alert feature across its G Suite and App Scripts services following a widespread phishing attack that targeted users in May. The new alert feature aims to prevent a user accidentally click on a phishing link. …

FBI warns parents about privacy and safety risks of Internet-connected toys

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is warning that Internet-connected toys can present privacy and safety risks to both parents and children. In a newly published advisory, the FBI said Internet-connected toys typically contain sensors, microphones, cameras, data storage components, speech recognition and GPS …

Dow Jones is the latest company to expose customer records on a cloud server

CLOUD By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Dow Jones & Co. has followed in the footsteps of Verizon Communications Inc. by leaving private customer records exposed to the public on a cloud server. Similar to Verizon, the 2.2 million records were found publicly available on an unsecured Amazon Web Services …

$7M stolen in hacking of CoinDash’s initial coin offering

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

A startup attempting to raise money through an initial coin offering has been hacked, and about $7 million worth of Ethereum tokens invested by customers has been stolen in the process. CoinDash, a company that was aiming to build a “blockchain asset …

Leap Motion raises $50M to advance its VR/AR hand tracking technology

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Hoping to jumpstart commercial and enterprise use of its hand tracking technology, high-profile startup Leap Motion Inc. has raised $50 million in a later-stage round. Founded in 2010, Leap Motion is developing hand tracking for use in virtual and augmented reality worlds, allowing …

Google will push users to abandon SMS two-step verification to avoid security risks

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Google Inc. is pushing users to switch from messaging-based two-step login verification to a phone-based service instead as a way to bypass the security risks of Simple Messaging Service authentication services. Beginning this week, Google will invite users of its existing so-called SMS 2-SV …

Report: Amazon is working on a new messaging app called Anytime

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Amazon.com Inc. wants a slice of the consumer messaging market, at least according to a report published late last week. The e-commerce and cloud computing giant apparently is developing an app that would take on services provided by Facebook Inc., Apple Inc. …

Google wins ruling on employee data request in wage discrimination investigation

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Google Inc. got a win Friday in its ongoing dispute with the Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs over data on pay gaps between men and women at the company. A judge ruled that a data request by the office …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

New Bluetooth standard supports mesh networking for the Internet of Things

Mira Prism headset to deliver augmented reality to iPhone users for just $99

Google rolls out new security alerts for G Suite and App Scripts

FBI warns parents about privacy and safety risks of Internet-connected toys

Dow Jones is the latest company to expose customer records on a cloud server

$7M stolen in hacking of CoinDash’s initial coin offering

Leap Motion raises $50M to advance its VR/AR hand tracking technology

Google will push users to abandon SMS two-step verification to avoid security risks

Report: Amazon is working on a new messaging app called Anytime

Google wins ruling on employee data request in wage discrimination investigation

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