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

Wynn Las Vegas to equip every room with an Amazon Echo

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Ordering room service could soon be as easy as saying, “Alexa, order me a room service hamburger.” Wynn Las Vegas today announced a deal with Amazon.com Inc. to equip its hotel rooms with Amazon’s smart home assistant Echo. The deal, claimed to be …

Uber hits obstacles on first day of self-driving car trial in San Francisco

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Ride hailing giant Uber Technologies Inc. has expanded its trial of self-driving cars to San Francisco, but it ran into technological and political traffic on its very first day. The San Francisco test started Wednesday morning with a fleet of 11 Volvo …

34 arrested in global crackdown on distributed denial-of-service attacks

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Law enforcement officials in the United States, Europe and Australia have arrested 34 people as part of a global crackdown on distributed denial of service attacks. The arrests targeted buyers of DDoS-for-hire services, often using names such as “server stressers” and “booters,” …

Finger-lickin’ bad: KFC loyalty program hacked in the UK

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

KFC customers have had their chicken preferences exposed after the fast food giant’s U.K. loyalty club was hacked. According to ITV Monday, 1.2 million Colonel’s Club loyalty scheme members were advised by KFC that their personal information may have been breached and that …

Netgear router models vulnerable to remote attackers

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

New research has found that a wide variety of routers made by Netgear Inc. are highly susceptible to hacking. The security issue, discovered by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, allows remote attackers to inject highly privileged commands when anyone connected to a …

IBM’s Watson delivers AI-powered shopper support to the Mall of America

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

The holidays are nearly here and IBM Corp. is getting into the holiday spirit by calling on its Watson cognitive computing system to power one of the busiest shopping periods of the year. Watson is being used to pilot mobile concierges at …

Newly discovered ransomware lets victims off the hook – if they infect their friends

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

In a new twist on a growing scam, a newly discovered form of ransomware offers users a chance to unencrypt the data on their computer if they infect two other friends who subsequently pay the ransom. Called Popcorn Time (not related to …

Cryptocurrency fund Polychain Capital raises $10M from Andreessen Horowitz, Union Square

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

The new cryptocurrency-focused hedge fund Polychain Capital has raised $10 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz and Union Square Ventures. Run by former Coinbase employee Olaf Carlson-Wee, the fund has been set up to invest in digital assets such as bitcoin, Ethereum, …

‘Google Glass for physicians’ startup Augmedix raises $23M

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Augmedix Inc., a startup using Google’s Glass head-mounted computers, has raised $23 million in a new round of funding from investors McKesson Ventures, OrbiMed, Redmile Group, Emergence Capital and DCM Ventures. Founded in 2012, Augmedix is seeking to “rehumanize” the physician-patient relationship by eliminating …

German steel conglomerate ThyssenKrupp hacked in corporate espionage case

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

German steel and elevator conglomerate ThyssenKrupp AG has had trade secrets stolen following a hack of its systems earlier this year. The company said in a statement Thursday that it had been targeted by attackers located in Southeast Asia engaged in what …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Wynn Las Vegas to equip every room with an Amazon Echo

Uber hits obstacles on first day of self-driving car trial in San Francisco

34 arrested in global crackdown on distributed denial-of-service attacks

Finger-lickin’ bad: KFC loyalty program hacked in the UK

Netgear router models vulnerable to remote attackers

IBM’s Watson delivers AI-powered shopper support to the Mall of America

Newly discovered ransomware lets victims off the hook – if they infect their friends

Cryptocurrency fund Polychain Capital raises $10M from Andreessen Horowitz, Union Square

‘Google Glass for physicians’ startup Augmedix raises $23M

German steel conglomerate ThyssenKrupp hacked in corporate espionage case

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