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

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Facebook responds to bias allegations: not systematic, but individual staff may have acted improperly

Social networking giant Facebook, Inc. has submitted a response to the United States Senate Commerce Committee over allegations that it was biased against Conservative political stories in its trending topics list. In a letter to Chairman Senator John Thule, Facebook General Counsel Colin Stretch stated that an investigation into the allegations found that there was ...

Report: Samsung Galaxy S7 Active to go on sale June 10 with 4000 mAh battery

Samsung Electronic Co. Ltd. is set to release its new Galaxy S7 Active phone and a new leak Monday show’s that the phone is getting a battery upgrade among other features. According to VentureBeat, the specs for the Galaxy S7 Active closely matches those of the standard Galaxy S7 and will include a memory slot, ...

Google powered Levi’s Commuter smart jacket coming to market in 2017

Would you like to be able to control your music, answer phone calls, access navigation, and other smartphone features by tapping and swiping on the sleeve of your jacket? The answer from most people isn’t probably no versus WTF? but none the less starting in 2017 a new jacket made by Levi Strauss & Co. ...

Google’s Project Ara modular Android phone developer edition coming in Q4

Google, Inc. is finally bringing its modular Android phone, Project Ara, to market with developers being able to get their hands on the device later this year. Project Ara was first conceived by Motorola Mobility, Inc. back in 2013, and was retained by Google when it sold the company to Lenovo; the concept of the ...

Cheaper than a can of Coke: Indian phone maker offers Android smartphone for $1.47

$1.47 doesn’t buy an awful lot these days, outside of perhaps a small item off the McDonald’s dollar menu, but what if it could buy you an Android smartphone? Well, now it can with a new company in India offering an Android-powered smartphone for the introductory price of Rs 99 ($1.47). Called the Namotel Acche ...

Race is on: Uber starts testing its own self-driving car

Ridesharing service Uber, Inc. gave the world its first look at its efforts to develop a self-driving car Thursday. The company revealed details of the vehicle in a blog post, explaining that their self-driving vehicle is built on top of a Ford Fusion outfitted with radars, laser scanners, and high-resolution cameras to map details of ...

Content is king: Google Daydream VR platform will launch with a strong lineup of video and gaming partners

The term “content is king” may date back to an article written by Bill Gates in 1996, but the saying has never really gone out of style, and it applies equally today when it comes to the burgeoning virtual reality marketplace; those headset makers with a superior content offering will be well placed to rapidly ...

Game changer: Chromebooks now outselling Apple Macs as Google announces support for Android Apps

Google, Inc. announced that it was bringing Android Apps to Chromebook’s Thursday as new sales figures show that Chromebook’s outsold Apple computers in the first quarter. The sales figures come from via International Data Corporation (IDC) who in a session at Google’s I/O conference disclosed that Apple shipped 1.76 million Macs in the United States ...

Smash hit: Google Photos passes 200m active users

Google’s smash hit photo app Google Photos is continuing its phenomenal run with the company announcing at its annual I/O conference Wednesday that the app now has over 200 million active users. On top of the 200 million active users, which is double the figure it reported in October last year, Google also disclosed that ...

Fitbit has acquired Coin so it can integrate NFC payments into its wearables

Smart wearables maker FitBit, Inc. has acquired the wearable payment assets of smart credit card maker Coin, Inc. for an undisclosed sum. Under the deal, Fitbit obtains key personnel and intellectual property specific to Coin’s wearables payment platform. but does not include Coin’s existing smart-payment product Coin 2.0. Founded in 2012, Coin offered a device ...