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You Have No Idea How Much You Still Use BlackBerry – WSJ

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You Have No Idea How Much You Still Use BlackBerry – WSJ

But an astonishing number of people still rely on BlackBerry—and they don’t realize it.?

The company’s most lucrative product is not hardware but the hidden software in 275 million cars on the road today. In fact, BlackBerry’s essential technology can be found in all sorts of unexpected places, and you wouldn’t find it even if you went looking for it.?

“On a car, you’ll never see QNX’s logo,” said Wall, the division’s president. “What you will see is a better experience.”?

He likes to think of QNX engineers as plumbers and electricians, responsible for the stuff we need and never see. In a house, it’s pipes and wiring. In a car, it’s the software underpinning safety features that we take for granted. QNX is the operating system that enables all kinds of driver assistance: collision warnings, blind-spot notifications, adaptive cruise control, pedestrian detection and steering you back into a lane when you’re drifting into trouble.?
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Can the E.P.A. Survive Lee Zeldin? | The New Yorker

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Can the E.P.A. Survive Lee Zeldin? | The New Yorker

ast summer, more than a hundred and fifty staff members at the Environmental Protection Agency sent a letter to the agency’s head, Lee Zeldin, outlining their concerns about his leadership. Topping the list was Zeldin’s naked partisanship. The administrator often used his official communications to trash Democrats. This “politicized messaging,” the letter said, was undermining trust in the agency. So, too, were Zeldin’s gutting of the E.P.A.’s research division and his tendency to ignore the findings of its scientists. The missive noted that it reflected the staffers’ personal, rather than professional, opinions, and had been written on their own time. It ended by urging Zeldin to “correct course.”

 

Traffic Light 🚦 Caution ⚠ Flashers

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They aren't as common as traditional traffic lights but can be found on rural highways across the state. A total of 467 blinking lights exist across the state.

Thematic Map: How Rural is a New York County's Population