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A Blackberry With a Cracked Screen Led to Some Weird Moments in the Biden Impeachment Inquiry

The House of Representatives had plenty of fireworks Wednesday during the Oversight and Accountability Committee’s hearing into the impeachment of President Joe Biden. Tony Bobulinski, a former business partner of Hunter Biden, was one of the star witnesses of the hearing and so was his Blackberry. How Important Was it for Jason Reitman to be a Part of Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire?More than an hour into the hearing, Bobulinski answered questions regarding his business affairs with Hunter Biden and the texts between him and…

Blackberry Smoke’s Final Concert With Brit Turner Was in Atlanta

The last time Blackberry Smoke frontman Charlie Starr saw his longtime friend and bandmate Brit Turner was at Turner’s Atlanta home. The drummer, who was diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2022, was under hospice care, but Starr had some rare good news to deliver. “I told him our record was number one,” Starr tells Rolling Stone. “And his eyes got really big. He had really stopped speaking at that point. it was obvious to me he knew what I had told him.” Just a few days later, on March 3, Turner died after a…

Blackberry Smoke Postpone Concerts After Brit Turner’s Death

The band pushed three gigs this weekend, but will honor original tickets when the shows are rescheduled Blackberry Smoke have decided to reschedule three of their upcoming shows as they mourn the death of drummer Brit Turner.  The three postponed gigs were set to take place this weekend in Denver; Beaver Creek, Colorado; and Kansas City. Blackberry Smoke said they would “be back as soon as possible” with more info and rescheduled dates, but urged fans to hold onto their tickets as they’ll be

Brit Turner dead: Blackberry Smoke drummer was 57

Country rock band Blackberry Smoke is mourning one of its own: drummer Brit Turner, who died after a battle with brain cancer. “It is with the deepest sorrow that we inform everyone that our brother Brit Turner has moved on from this life,” the Atlanta group announced in a Monday Facebook post. “If you had the privilege of knowing Brit on any level, you know he was the most caring, empathetic, driven and endearing person one could ever hope to meet.”A publicist for the “One Horse Town” group confirmed news of the…

Brit Turner, Blackberry Smoke Drummer, Dead at 57

Brit Turner, the drummer and a founding member of the Southern rock & roll band Blackberry Smoke, died Sunday. He was 57. Turner was diagnosed with glioblastoma — a cancer of the brain — and underwent surgery to remove a brain tumor in November 2022. The band confirmed his death in a post on social media. “It is with the deepest sorrow that we inform everyone that our brother @britturner13 has moved on from this life. If you had the privilege of knowing Brit on any level, you know he was the most caring,…

L&T Tech Services and BlackBerry join to offer suite of auto tech for SDVs, ET Auto

Representative image.New Delhi: L&T Technology Services Limited (LTTS), a digital engineering and R&D services company, has partnered with Blackberry, a security software and services company.The collaboration is set to leverage the BlackBerry QNX suite of automotive software solutions and enable the development of innovative Software Defined Vehicles (SDVs) for global Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), the company said.The partnership sees LTTS integrating

These Classic Phones Live Rent-Free in My Head

Photo: EtsyI know the headline says classic phones, and you’re probably expecting some vintage tech here. I also know you will hate me for making you feel old by making the 2000s sound like prehistoric times. So, before we start, I’d like to clarify that, as a 1997-born, these phones are my earliest memory of cell phones in general. So you’re going to be seeing a lot of Y2K-era stuff here.I was attached to these phones in some way. These were the first phones I owned or dreamt of owning. All of them have different reasons

Stellantis, BlackBerry QNX and AWS launch virtual cockpit, Auto News, ET Auto

Stellantis selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider for vehicle platforms and the companies began work on Stellantis’ purpose-built, in-house VEW. Global automaker Stellantis N.V. led the creation of the world’s first virtual cockpit platform as part of its Stellantis Virtual Engineering Workbench (VEW) enabling the delivery of infotainment tech to customers 100 times faster than previous processes. The new platform uses the QNX Hypervisor in the cloud from

This unique iPhone case comes with a fully-fledged physical keyboard — ‘Clicks’ adds a physical keyboard to your iPhone so you can feel like…

If you’ve ever found yourself nostalgic for the BlackBerry era of mobile devices but like the modern features of the iPhone 15 Pro, this quirky case with a physical keyboard is the best of both worlds. The Clicks Creator Keyboard for iPhone is both a case and a QWERTY keyboard that plugs straight into the USB-C or Lightning port at the bottom of your device and is compatible with the iPhone 14 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro, or iPhone 15 Pro Max. With a passthrough charging port, allowing you to charge your phone with the case on, a…

For just $139, this startup turns your iPhone into a BlackBerry-era relic

Clicks Technology is today unveiling the Clicks creator keyboard for the iPhone. It’s less “the future” than an unpleasant glance back to a world we thought we had left behind, in a nostalgia-tinged flashback to the days of BlackBerry and Nokia, where pressing physical buttons was the pinnacle of mobile communication. “We use keyboards on our desktops, laptops and tablets every day — so it’s kind of odd that we abandoned physical buttons on the smartphone,” said Michael Fisher, co-founder of…