Tech
Claims about technology, AI, and the companies that build it.
In a typical hydraulic valve lifter, the body is the outer casing.
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In a typical hydraulic valve lifter, the plunger automatically adjusts to eliminate clearance in the valvetrain.
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In an internal combustion engine, the timing chain synchronizes the crankshaft and camshaft(s) so that piston motion is coordinated with the opening and closing of the intake and exhaust valves.
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An exhaust camshaft sprocket synchronizes camshaft rotation so that engine valves open and close at the correct times to expel burned gases from the engine.
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Microsoft instructed its engineers to stop using an AI coding tool because the tool's usage costs were higher than the cost of paying the engineers.
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Microsoft instructed approximately 100,000 of its engineers to stop using an AI coding tool by the end of June 2026.
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Piezoelectric autofocus motors can hold their position without continuous electrical power, unlike voice coil motor (VCM) autofocus modules that require continuous current to hold a non-rest position.
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A voice coil motor (VCM) autofocus module typically uses a return spring so that when current is reduced or cut, the lens moves back toward a rest position.
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In a voice coil motor (VCM), the magnetic field is provided by a permanent magnet, and the lens position is controlled by varying the current through a copper coil.
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A piezoelectric motor can mechanically hold its position when power is cut (off-power holding), whereas a voice coil motor (VCM) requires current to hold position.
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A smartphone camera lens physically moves forward or backward to focus on objects at different distances.
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A typical smartphone is roughly 8 millimetres thick.
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A smartphone camera autofocus system needs to achieve focus in under 100 milliseconds.
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A voice coil motor (VCM) used for smartphone autofocus has no gears and no friction.
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Rocky Mountain Power redirected all electricity generation capacity it owns to provide backup power for a newly built AI data center in Utah.
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More than 30% of newly written source code in the United States is produced using AI coding tools.
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Substantive disagreements between AI models on fact-checking outcomes are common.
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As of Q1 2026, frontier AI coding models exceed expert human performance on real-world software engineering tasks, as demonstrated by SWE-bench Verified and HumanEval+ results.
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Claude AI cannot directly crack Bitcoin encryption or hack into a blockchain.
NOT BSNo checks match that verdict.