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Who’s Tracking You? Use This New Service to Find Out

It can be daunting to determine who’s responsible for showing ads on the websites we visit, or who’s harvesting data from the mobile apps we use every day. That information is already semi-public, but it is not easily parsed and traditionally much of it has remained walled away in the hands of large advertising platforms. Not anymore: A powerful and free new service called DecryptAds scrapes and correlates this adtech data and makes it simple to quickly learn a great deal about the entities that are tracking you.

A Decryptads summary of the advertising partnerships declared by espn.com.

The newly launcheddecryptads.com says it is constantly scraping the files that websites and apps make publicly available to disclose the companies that are permitted to run ads or collect user data. These files include:

–ads.txt: all of the adtech companies and data brokers that may run ads or harvest...

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Honor Announces a Surprisingly Capable Gimbal-Equipped 'Robot Phone'

On Wednesday, Chinese smartphone brand Honor announced the Honor Robot Phone, which features a built-in motorized camera. The camera rotates, tilts, and stabilizes video footage regardless of the handset's orientation, mimicking a gimbal. The phone's primary rear camera uses a 200MP sensor with an f/1.

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Less than a year on, Microsoft tells Mico to pipe down

AI AND ML Copilot's gurning blob is leaving Voice for a new career in education Microsoft has yanked Mico from the Copilot spotlight less than a year after unveiling the anthropomorphic assistant intended to make its AI a little less soulless. As part of Microsoft's announcement

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Flock CEO says 'we're not Big Brother' in the face of surveillance allegations — as 3D printing enthusiasts share 'Flock Sock' camera cover to help protestors

* Flock is making it harder for its systems to be abused * Its CEO says the company's priority is public safety * You can now 3D print a Flock Sock to disable cameras near you Flock knows that its license plate readers and other surveillance tech are facing a substantial

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Google’s Pixel Phones Are Getting a Tap-to-Share Feature for Contact Info and More

If you have an Android device and FOMO around Apple’s AirDrop, the wait for a similar feature that lets you physically tap phones together to send files and contact cards is over. Google’s Quick Share now has a tap-to-share feature that lets you do the same motion to

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Honor Announces a Surprisingly Capable Gimbal-Equipped 'Robot Phone'

Less than a year on, Microsoft tells Mico to pipe down

Flock CEO says 'we're not Big Brother' in the face of surveillance allegations &mdash; as 3D printing enthusiasts share 'Flock Sock' camera cover to help protestors

Google’s Pixel Phones Are Getting a Tap-to-Share Feature for Contact Info and More

Flock CEO says 'we're not Big Brother' in the face of surveillance allegations — as 3D printing enthusiasts share 'Flock Sock' camera cover to help protestors