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BlackBerry 10
BlackBerry 10, also known as BB OS 10, is a proprietary mobile operating system from BlackBerry, launched in 2013 on the Z10 and Q10 phones and terminated in 2022.
Blackberry coalition
Blackberry coalition (Brombeer-Koalition): German three-party alliance of CDU/CSU, SPD, and BSW, first formed in Thuringia in 2024; named under Germany's color-based coalition naming convention.
BlackBerry Limited
BlackBerry Limited, founded as Research In Motion in 1984, is a Canadian software company in Waterloo, Ontario, known for the BlackBerry smartphone and its QNX embedded software.
BlackBerry OS
BlackBerry OS, including version BlackBerry 6, is a Java-based mobile operating system developed by Research In Motion for BlackBerry smartphones, ending with the shutdown of its services in 2022.
BlackBerry Priv
The BlackBerry Priv, also known as the BlackBerry Venice, is a 2015 slider smartphone with a physical QWERTY keyboard and the first BlackBerry device to run Android.
Blackberry Smoke
Blackberry Smoke, Atlanta Southern rock band formed in 2000, led by Charlie Starr; albums Holding All the Roses and Like an Arrow hit No. 1 on Billboard country; drummer Brit Turner died 2024.
Blackbird
Blackbird (Turdus merula), also Eurasian or Common Blackbird, Amsel, merle: a common Eurasian thrush; males black with yellow bill, females brown; 5.1 million UK pairs, declining in London due to Usutu virus.
Blackbird (2019 film)
Blackbird (2019) is Roger Michell's English-language remake of the Danish film Silent Heart, written by Christian Torpe. Susan Sarandon stars as Lily, a woman with ALS gathering her family for a final weekend before an assisted death; premiered at TIFF 2019.
Blackbird (Beatles song)
"Blackbird" is a 1968 Beatles song from the White Album (side two, track 3), a solo Paul McCartney acoustic piece credited to Lennon-McCartney. Recorded 11 June 1968 in 32 takes with foot taps and Eltham's birdsong tape; its motif derives from Bach's Bourrée in E minor, and McCartney links it to the Little Rock Nine.
Blackbird Interactive
Blackbird Interactive is an independent video game studio in Vancouver, Canada, founded in 2010 by Homeworld and Company of Heroes veterans, known for Hardspace: Shipbreaker and Minecraft co-development.
Blackbird Ventures (venture capital firm)
Blackbird Ventures is an Australian venture capital firm founded in 2012 by Rick Baker, Niki Scevak, and Bill Bartee, with over $3 billion invested across 190 companies.
Blackbirding
Blackbirding was the 19th- and early-20th-century practice of recruiting Pacific Islanders, often by kidnapping or coercion, as indentured plantation laborers, chiefly in Queensland, Australia, from 1863 to 1906.
Blackboard
A blackboard, also called a chalkboard, is a rigid, reusable dark surface written on with chalk, introduced into classrooms around 1800 and later displaced by whiteboards and digital displays.
Blackboard bold
Blackboard bold, also called double-struck or chalkboard bold, is a mathematical typeface with doubled strokes imitating bold, used chiefly for number systems like ℤ, ℝ, and ℂ.
Blackboard Jungle
Blackboard Jungle (1955) is Richard Brooks's MGM drama, adapted from Evan Hunter's novel, starring Glenn Ford and Sidney Poitier as teacher and student in a violent New York vocational school; first film to feature rock 'n' roll via "Rock Around the Clock."
Blackboard Learn
Blackboard Learn, also known as the Blackboard Learning System, is a learning management system created by Blackboard in 1997 and used by about 9,300 educational institutions.
Blackboard system
A blackboard system is an AI architecture where specialized knowledge sources cooperate by writing to a shared data structure, first used in the Hearsay-II speech system.
Blackboards (تخته سیاه)
Blackboards (تخته سیاه, Takhte Siah) is Samira Makhmalbaf's 2000 Iranian-Italian fiction film about Kurdish itinerant teachers carrying blackboards along the Iran-Iraq border; it won the 2000 Cannes Jury Prize.
Blackbody radiation
Blackbody radiation is the electromagnetic radiation emitted by an idealized object that absorbs all radiation, described by Planck's law and dependent only on temperature, not shape or material.
Blackbox (planner)
Blackbox is a classical AI planning system released in 1998 by Henry Kautz and Bart Selman that converts STRIPS planning problems into SAT problems and solves them with SAT engines.
Blackbriar
Blackbriar is a Dutch gothic and symphonic metal band from Assen, formed in 2012 and fronted by vocalist Zora Cock, known for its cinematic music videos.
Blackbuck
Blackbuck (Antilope cervicapra), Indian antelope, sole species of genus Antilope, native to the subcontinent's grasslands; IUCN Least Concern, Schedule I in India, range down to 4.6% of former extent.
Blackburn
Blackburn, Lancashire town and seat of Blackburn with Darwen unitary borough; former world weaving capital with 29,000 weavers in 1920; borough population 163,801 (mid-2025), ranked 11th most deprived in England.
Blackburn Buccaneer
The Blackburn Buccaneer, later the Hawker Siddeley Buccaneer, was a British twin-engine, carrier-based strike aircraft serving the Royal Navy from 1962 and the RAF until 1994.
Blackburn Rovers F.C.
Blackburn Rovers F.C. (Arte et Labore), English club founded 5 November 1875 at Blackburn, based at Ewood Park since 1890; three league titles (1912, 1914, 1995), six FA Cups, 2002 League Cup, founding member of the Football League and Premier League.
Blackburn Skua
The Blackburn Skua was a British two-seat carrier-based fighter and dive-bomber of the Fleet Air Arm, first flown in 1937, known for sinking the German cruiser Königsberg at Bergen in April 1940.
Blackcomb Pipeline
The Blackcomb Pipeline is a 42-inch natural gas pipeline under construction from the Permian Basin of West Texas to the Agua Dulce hub in South Texas.
Blackcurrant
Blackcurrant (Ribes nigrum, cassis) is a Grossulariaceae shrub grown for black, vitamin C- and anthocyanin-rich berries; key cultivars include Ben Lomond and Ben Hope, with major production in Europe and New Zealand.
Blackdamp
Blackdamp, also known as stythe or chokedamp, is a mine atmosphere whose oxygen has been replaced mainly by carbon dioxide, so it cannot sustain life and gives no warning.
Blackened (song)
Blackened is the opening track of Metallica's 1988 album ...And Justice for All, written by Hetfield, Ulrich, and Newsted; a 190 BPM thrash song about nuclear winter, with a 2020 quarantine re-recording.