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

Waymo offers free rides in Arizona as its self-driving cars move into beta testing

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Waymo Inc., Google parent Alphabet Inc.’s self-driving car division, has opened up a new testing program in Phoenix to the general public. Starting as of today, anyone in the Phoenix metropolitan area, including Gilbert, Tempe, Mesa and Chandler, can apply to join the “Early …

Webroot antivirus update identifies Windows system files as malware

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Webroot Inc. antivirus software users are not having a great day. A malware signature update pushed out by the company resulted in the software identifying key Windows system files as being malware. News of the problem emerged on Twitter Monday afternoon when users …

Atlassian’s HipChat hacked with user data and content stolen

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

HipChat, Atlassian Corp. PLC’s group chat platform, was hacked over the weekend and the hackers got a significant amount of data, including group chat logs. The notification of the hack came from HipChat Chief Security Officer Ganesh Krishnan, who in a blog post …

Report: Amazon now has a self-driving vehicle team

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Amazon.com Inc. has established an in-house team to consider ways the e-commerce giant can make use of self-driving vehicle technology, according to a report published by The Wall Street Journal. The team, said to consist of around a dozen employees, was established …

Vigilante bot takes the good fight to Mirai by securing vulnerable IoT devices

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

A mysterious Internet of Things bot first identified in October is now believed to be the work of a vigilante hacker who is attempting to block infections from nefarious bots such as the notorious Mirai. According to Waylon Grange at Symantec Corp., …

Russian man receives record sentence for credit card hacking

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

The son of a Russian lawmaker who was convicted in August on 38 counts related to his hacking of point-of-sale computers to steal and sell credit card numbers on the darknet has received a record sentence for his crimes. Thirty-two-year-old Roman Valerevich …

Stealth AI chip maker founded by ex-Google engineers raises $10.3M

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

A stealth startup founded by a number of Google Inc. veterans who may be working on next-generation artificial intelligence-based computer chips has raised $10.3 million in venture capital funding, according to one report. CNBC stumbled across the funding round for the company …

Smart payments card startup Plastc files for bankruptcy having blown $9M from crowdsourcing campaign

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Despite raising $9 million in a crowdfunding campaign, smart payments card startup Plastc Inc. has filed for bankruptcy after not managing to deliver even one card. The company, founded in 2013, was attempting to build the Plastc Card, a credit card-shaped smart …

Machine learning data management startup SafeGraph raises $16M

BIG DATA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

San Francisco-based machine learning data management startup SafeGraph Inc. has raised a $16 million funding round led by IDG Ventures USA that included more than 100 high-profile individual investors. Among the investors in the unusual Series A round are Peter Thiel, Adam D’Angelo, …

Banking problems prompt Chinese bitcoin exchange OKCoin to suspend wire transfers

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Leading Chinese bitcoin exchange OKCoin has suspended incoming U.S. dollar wire transfers, sending a shudder through the cryptocurrency community days after Hong Kong-based bitcoin exchange Bitfinex (BTXNA Inc.) suspended all wire transfers. In an email to customers, the exchange said the move to …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Waymo offers free rides in Arizona as its self-driving cars move into beta testing

Webroot antivirus update identifies Windows system files as malware

Atlassian’s HipChat hacked with user data and content stolen

Report: Amazon now has a self-driving vehicle team

Vigilante bot takes the good fight to Mirai by securing vulnerable IoT devices

Russian man receives record sentence for credit card hacking

Stealth AI chip maker founded by ex-Google engineers raises $10.3M

Smart payments card startup Plastc files for bankruptcy having blown $9M from crowdsourcing campaign

Machine learning data management startup SafeGraph raises $16M

Banking problems prompt Chinese bitcoin exchange OKCoin to suspend wire transfers

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