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Project Titan sets up shop in Canada, with employees from BlackBerry's QNX

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<p>Ah, Canada: a land of wide-open spaces to test automonous driving software, and people too polite to blow up your spot. Well, until Mark Gurman catches on. Gurman and Gerrit De Vynck at Bloomberg (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-25/apple-develops-car-operating-system-in-blackberry-country) reported Wednesday that Apple has “dozens” of software engineers working out of an office outside of Ottawa, Ontario—just a five minute walk from BlackBerry’s QNX division, which provides automotive software. In fact, Bloomberg reports, about two dozen of Apple’s engineers came directly from QNX.</p><p>Two of those hires (http://www.macworld.com/article/3131635/tech-events-dupe/report-apple-slams-the-brakes-on-electric-apple-car-to-focus-on-auto-software.html) include Dan Dodge, former QNX CEO; and Derrick Keefe, a senior engineer with a decade of experience, according to Bloomberg’s anonymous sources.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3135371/car-tech/project-titan-sets-up-shop-in-canada-with-employees-from-blackberrys-qnx.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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