To win the World Cube Championships -- a place where top competitors can solve the frustrating (to the rest of us) Rubik's Cube puzzle in under 10 seconds -- Max Park deftly flipped the squares into ...

Solving a Rubik's Cube is not as impossible as it may seem thanks to these tips. Let's take a page out of a 1980s toy catalog and revisit the Rubik's Cube! First, it's the perfect solution to boredom: ...

You’d be forgiven for thinking you need to be a genius—or at least really, really lucky—to solve a Rubik’s Cube. After all, it took Hungarian professor Ernö Rubik, a full month to solve his famous ...

You’d be forgiven for assuming that this video was the work of a talented animator, a visual effects artist, or an illusionist. But the only magic at play here is magnets and a magnificent execution ...

I believe once you solve one side there is just a sequence that you can follow to solve the rest (maybe it has to be the top layer). I've done it a few times but never memorized the steps. Not at ALL.

The news that grabbed the artificial intelligence community, and the popular imagination, on Tuesday, was the announcement by the San Francisco-based research institute OpenAI that it had taught a ...

A machine has taught itself to solve a Rubik’s Cube without human assistance, according to a group of UC Irvine researchers. Two algorithms developed by the researchers, collectively called Deep Cube, ...

For most of us, just finishing a Rubik's Cube is a big deal. That's what makes Steven Brundage's act on Tuesday's "America's Got Talent" even more mind-blowing. The magician from Saratoga Springs, New ...

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If you want your children to pick up the skill, make sure you know how to do it, too. I struggled through my entire childhood to solve the cubes. So when I bought it for my children, I didn’t want to ...

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SAN FRANCISCO--Think of the things you could do in 11 seconds. Maybe you could walk to the fridge to get a soda. You could change CDs, or possibly put on a T-shirt. But when you think about it, it's a ...