Claims about technology, AI, and the companies that build it.
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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.
MOSTLY BS
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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.
HARDLY BS
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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.
NOT BS
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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.
NOT BS
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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.
HARDLY BS
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A smartphone camera lens physically moves forward or backward to focus on objects at different distances.
HARDLY BS
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A typical smartphone is roughly 8 millimetres thick.
NOT BS
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A smartphone camera autofocus system needs to achieve focus in under 100 milliseconds.
MOSTLY BS
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A voice coil motor (VCM) used for smartphone autofocus has no gears and no friction.
MOSTLY BS
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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.
TOTAL BS
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More than 30% of newly written source code in the United States is produced using AI coding tools.
SOME BS
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Substantive disagreements between AI models on fact-checking outcomes are common.
NOT BS
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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.
MOSTLY BS
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Claude AI cannot directly crack Bitcoin encryption or hack into a blockchain.
NOT BS
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A Nigerian hacking group hacked the South African Revenue Service (SARS) on 23 May 2026.
TOTAL BS
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LiveKit agents can only listen and respond to humans in meetings held inside LiveKit rooms, so a Google Meet or Microsoft Teams meeting must be bridged into a LiveKit room for a LiveKit agent to interact with the meeting audio/video.
HARDLY BS
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The Neptune Deep offshore natural gas project has started drilling in Romania's Black Sea exclusive economic zone about 160 km from the coast of Bulgaria.
SOME BS
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Zenya (Infoland) holds ISO 9001 and ISO/IEC 27001 certifications that are audited by DNV GL.
HARDLY BS
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Singapore has a national digital identity system called Singpass that is used to access government digital services.
NOT BS
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France's Agence nationale de la sécurité des systèmes d'information (ANSSI) and Germany's Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI) have a mutual recognition agreement between France's Certification de sécurité de premier…
HARDLY BS
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