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

Microsoft and Accenture team up to build a blockchain-based global ID platform

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Microsoft Corp. has teamed up with management consulting firm Accenture PLC to design a blockchain-based platform that provides identification services to people worldwide. Presented at the United Nations Monday, the platform is intended to help people such as refugees who have lost …

Research shows how router LED lights can be used to steal data

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Researchers have found a way to steal data from any router in the most unlikely of ways: observing the LED lights on the front of the router. The paper from Israel’s Ben-Gurion University of the Negev describes how the LED functionality can be silently …

Electronic cancer: E-cigarettes can be used to spread malware and hijack PCs

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

The use of the increasingly popular smoking alternative e-cigarettes may be 95 percent safer than smoking a traditional cigarette, but they may not be so safe for your computers, according to two new demonstrated proofs-of-concept. The first comes from security researcher Ross Bevington, who …

Blockchain-based supercomputing startup SONM raises $42M in initial coin offering

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

SONM Pte. Ltd., a startup that is looking to built a cloud supercomputer using blockchain technology, has raised $42 million in an initial coin offering that saw investments from 8,774 participants. The company is attempted to build a “Supercomputer Organized by Network Mining” that …

Google to use AI and machine learning to tackle extremist content on YouTube

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Google Inc. is upping its fight against the spread of extremist content on its YouTube service by rolling out new artificial-intelligence services in conjunction with additional human oversight to stop it faster. The advanced AI platform will use ongoing machine learning research that …

European police arrest six members of a counter-antivirus service ring

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Police in Europe have arrested six people and questioned 39 others in relation to a cybercrime ring that involved the distribution of counter-antivirus software and a crypter service, which encrypts and conceals malware. Lead by Germany’s Kriminalinspektion Mayen in conjunction with Europol, operation “Neuland” saw …

Wikileaks dump details how the CIA can easily hijack routers

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

The Central Intelligence Agency likes to hack Wi-Fi routers. That’s the major takeaway from a new dump from Wikileaks that includes the details of software used by the agency to spy on all and sundry. Called “Cherry Blossom,” the CIA-designed hacking software uses …

AI-powered video analytics company Conviva raises $40M for future expansion

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Conviva Inc., a San Mateo, California-based company that uses artificial intelligence to measure and manage video plays, has raised $40 million in new funding. Founded in 2006, Conviva aims to address the “changing business of television” with a big-data platform that enables …

Report: Amazon has spoken to Slack about a potential $9B acquisition

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Amazon.com Inc. may be interested in acquiring enterprise messaging platform provider Slack Technologies Inc., according to a report published early Thursday morning. Bloomberg, citing people with knowledge of the matter, claims that Slack has received recent inquiries about a potential takeover from …

Microsoft AI achieves first-ever perfect score in Ms. Pac-Man game

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Artificial intelligence software designed by Microsoft Corp. has achieved something that was previously never thought possible: a perfect score in the computer game Ms. Pac-Man. Using computing power and programming power on what would appear to be a frivolous use of AI. …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Microsoft and Accenture team up to build a blockchain-based global ID platform

Research shows how router LED lights can be used to steal data

Electronic cancer: E-cigarettes can be used to spread malware and hijack PCs

Blockchain-based supercomputing startup SONM raises $42M in initial coin offering

Google to use AI and machine learning to tackle extremist content on YouTube

European police arrest six members of a counter-antivirus service ring

Wikileaks dump details how the CIA can easily hijack routers

AI-powered video analytics company Conviva raises $40M for future expansion

Report: Amazon has spoken to Slack about a potential $9B acquisition

Microsoft AI achieves first-ever perfect score in Ms. Pac-Man game

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