Sharing

Even in the depths of sleep, your brain is not completely shut off from those around you.The sound of snoring, the tugging of blankets, and the bumping of limbs are all registering on some level, and yet far from interrupting your sleep, new research suggests sharing a bed could actually make you feel like you've had a better night of rest.  At least, that is, when you're sleeping with a spouse or partner; if someone regularly sleeps with their child, they generally report greater insomnia than those who sleep alone.The…

Ben Goggin / NBC News: Experts say Amazon's encrypted messaging app Wickr Me is full of child sex abuse images and the company is not taking basic safety measures to prevent sharing — Court records show that Wickr Me has become part of a toolkit used by people who exploit children. Ben Goggin / NBC News: Experts say Amazon's encrypted messaging app Wickr Me is full of child sex abuse images and the company is not taking basic safety measures to prevent sharing — Court records…

SINGAPORE—China is concluding a yearlong probe into ride-hailing giant Didi Global Inc. DIDI -2.97% and preparing to lift a ban on adding new users, people familiar with the discussion said, the latest sign Beijing wants to spur economic activity from its beleaguered tech giants.Chinese regulators plan as well to allow the mobile apps of Didi back on domestic app stores, the people said. The apps were removed last July when Chinese authorities opened a data-security…

Didi Global Inc.’s DIDI -2.97% bumpy ride in the U.S. public markets is over—after 11 months.The ride-hailing company marked its last day as a New York Stock Exchange-traded company Friday, according to a person familiar with the matter, after an ill-fated debut helped turn it into a poster child for China’s tech crackdown. The Beijing-based company raised about $4.4 billion in June of 2021, in one of the biggest stock sales for a Chinese company since…

Google rolled out an update to Docs and Drive today that makes sharing files a little bit simpler. As originally reported by 9to5Google, the new Share menu is considerably smaller, and all of its elements are more compact and better organized. The first thing you will notice is that “Share with people” and “Get link” have been condensed to one box. In the last version, Sharing with individual people was its own stand-alone box, with another box for link sharing directly beneath it. In the new Share interface, the…

Modern Samsung smartphones and tablets with Bluetooth 5.0 (or newer versions) offer wireless audio sharing, but that’s limited to just two earbuds or speakers. In the future, that could expand to an unlimited number of nearby devices, thanks to a new Bluetooth technology that was unveiled today. Bluetooth Auracast offers smartphones, tablets, laptops, and other audio transmitters the ability to stream audio wirelessly to unlimited Bluetooth receivers. This opens up multiple possibilities and improves various scenarios,…

I’m irrationally excited about a new feature coming to Apple’s Screen Time, the company’s gentler term for parental controls. When my kid wants that extra 15 minutes on her favorite app, her plaintive request will come through iMessage as well as a pop-up notification on my Apple devices. Why is this exciting? Well, it’s a small thing, but if you miss that Screen Time notification, which is currently the only alert you get, you have to dive into the Settings app to manually address the request. This is fiddly and…

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Reco, which monitors organizations' internal and external data sharing for security issues, raises a $30M Series A led by Insight Partners and Zeev Ventures — Reco (also known as RecoLabs), a company using AI to map a company's data sharing, today announced that it raised $30 million … Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Reco, which monitors organizations' internal and external data sharing for security issues, raises a $30M Series A led by Insight Partners and Zeev…

Johnny Depp & Angelina Jolie Sharing A Passionate Kiss In The Tourist Makes Us Feel How These Two Didn’t Become A Thing Already – Watch ( Photo Credit – Twitter; IMDb ) Johnny Depp has recently won the defamation lawsuit against ex-wife Amber Heard and is making headlines every now and then. Back in the day, he did a film titled ‘The Tourist’ opposite Angelina Jolie where fans loved their on-screen chemistry. They had a lot of kissing scenes in the film and we wonder how these two didn’t become a…

Over the past week, business leaders have laid out in the starkest terms yet that a period of universal strength in the U.S. economy has given way to a muddled outlook in which a labor shortage, soaring stock markets and a healthy consumer are no longer givens.Technology companies from Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. to Uber Technologies Inc. have sharply slowed hiring in recent weeks, and Elon Musk told staff at…