Is when I hit the key fob to unlock the doors on the SuperDuty after it's been parked for a few days the height and mirror lights don't come on to save battery power. This disappoints me as a big kid I like looking at the roof lights in the dark.
Saturday May 2, 2026 — Old Smokey
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.?
In the mid-20th century, most sento switched from firewood to gas and oil boilers. In Tokyo, bathhouses tend to use city gas, but for regional sento, oil is the standard. Since the war began nine weeks ago, oil prices have surged, driving up costs by as much as 50 percent for bathhouse owners, according to the Japan National Sento Association.
Operators face unique limitations in passing on higher costs to their customers. Historically, these bathhouses were designated as essential infrastructure for people without private baths. Because of this legacy, sento are still classified as public welfare services, with prefectural governments capping entry fees at roughly 500 yen, or about $3.
