Sunday, June 15, 2014

Boot up: DuckDuckGo on iPhone, Beats-ing Glass, Star Trek stabilised

’This is the captain. Prepare to pretend that the ship is being thrown from side to side.' Photograph: SNAP/Rex Features

A burst of 9 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team

DuckDuckGo in Safari on iOS and OSX >> DuckDuckGo

Gabriel Weinberg:

Yesterday at WWDC, Apple announced that DuckDuckGo will be included as a built-in search option in future versions of Safari on iOS and OS X. We are thrilled to be included in Safari and it's great that Apple is making it easy for people to access our anonymous search option. This makes DuckDuckGo the first privacy-focused search engine to be added to one of the top four browsers and is a huge milestone for both us and privacy supporters.

DDG is still tiny - but this is one way that it could become much bigger. It's living proof that you can serve ads simply based on search keywords, not personal tracking. Anyway, the most expensive Google ad keywords - insurance, loans, mortgage, attorney and so on - really don't need your personal, trackable data to be served.

Why only Beats can teach Google Glass how to be cool >> Wired

Mat Honan:

Beats can now show off 3 billion reasons why critics don't matter. And that is a case study for how Google Glass could have done things differently, and might still have a chance to.

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