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Even on my laptop’s tinny speakers, the sound is unmis­takable: the click-clacking, slip-sliding sound of a Rubik’s Cube whipping into shape. “It’s my first solve of the day,” says Australian ...

The Rubik's Cube was created 50 years ago by Hungarian inventor Ernő Rubik. Over 500 million of them have been sold. Needless to say, the 3D puzzle has captured the imagination of countless students ...

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How do you learn to solve a Rubik’s Cube? Back in the dawn of twisty-puzzle time the answer was “You Can Do The Cube”, a book that sold over 1.5 million copies in 1981. Today, with a wide range of ...

Deep-learning machines have figured out how to master games like chess or Mortal Kombat. Now, computer scientists at the University of California, Irvine taken things to the third dimension by ...

Some Kansas City software developers built what they believe is the world's fastest Rubik's Cube-solving robot. They built it in their spare time, partly because one of the guys wanted something to do ...

Will Callan has been solving the Rubik’s Cube since 2012, when he was in the fifth grade. He started competing against others gifted in the art of deciphering the puzzle not long after. On Aug. 1, the ...

WIRED's Robbie Gonzalez learned to solve a Rubik's cube from Tyson Mao, one of the co-founders of the World Cube Association. In two weeks, Robbie got his solve time down from 45 minutes with Tyson, ...

Today's Google Doodle marks the 40th anniversary of the Rubik's Cube: the toy and/or puzzle that has rapidly infuriated and then eternally haunted almost person to have walked this fair Earth since ...