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What you need to know about ’15-minute cities’ — the future of sustainable urban life What is a 15-minute city exactly? And why do we need them? The 15-minute city One concept that’s been gathering momentum in recent months is the “15-minute city.” In short, the 15-minute city is an urban planning model which is designed to improve quality of life and bring communities together. It might sound like a bougie utopia, but it makes a lot of sense when you dig beneath the surface....

What your selfie camera angle says about you The left bias Since the 1970swe have known that in historical western portraiture, artists favored depicting the left cheek of their sitters, particularly when painting women. A 2017 study showed that when it comes to taking selfies,people tend to angle their smartphone in order to photograph their own left cheek too. Patterns have also been detected in the way selfie-takers position their cameras vertically....

Twitter announced its v2 API for developers last July under an ‘Early Access’ label. Now, the company is enabling wider access so more folks can take advantage of it. So now if you’re using the Twitter API, you’ll be automatically accessing the new version and taking advantage of its features. With this launch, the social media company is focusing on two primary areas: easy signups and access to more tweets per month....

WhatsApp said today that it won’t delete or deactivate your account if you don’t accept its privacy policy that’s rolling out on May 15. The Facebook-owned chat app had originally introduced the updated privacy policy in Januarythrough a pop-up to users. However, after a major user backlash, it decided the rollout to February 8 andeventually to May 15. The company had said at that time that if a user won’t accept the new privacy policy by then, their accounts would be deactivated temporarily....

WhatsApp has blocked the Taliban’s helpline channels and few other groups from its service. Over the last few days, the Taliban has taken the control of Kabul, and threw off the Afghanistan government. This has caused severe unrest in the country with several peopletrying to flee the country. The group set up a helpline on WhatsApp for citizens to complain about violence, looting, and other law & order-related problems. Asthe Financial Timesnoted, it has used such helplines in the past....