If you've ever picked up a Rubik's cube with no instruction on how to solve one, you know how frustrating and how useless it is to try. Teenager Lucas Etter holds the world record for fastest Rubik's ...

They’re known as "speedcubers," young people who can solve the puzzles presented by the colourful cubes in just a few short seconds. Alisa Siegel takes us to a Toronto competition where teens race to ...

Artificial intelligence, which may at some point automate your job and can already defeat professionals in six-player poker, is now able to solve Rubik's Cube faster than any human. Researchers at the ...

The stage is set for the first ever all-digital Red Bull Rubik’s Cube World Cup. More than 2,000 hopefuls have been whittled down to the world’s 30 fastest cubers ahead of November’s virtual final.

Earlier this year, while putting together a video about the world’s fastest solvers of the Rubik’s Cube, I decided to devote some time to learning to solve the classic puzzle myself. Tyson Mao, a ...

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 ...

As if it isn’t crazy enough that a 14-year old set the world record for solving a Rubik’s Cube in under five seconds last November, a couple of software engineers have now built a robot that can crack ...

Geek Life: Fun stories, memes, humor and other random items at the intersection of tech, science, business and culture. SEE MORE Two humans programmed a robot to solve a Rubik’s Cube in just over one ...

Two software engineers who built a robot that can solve a Rubik’s Cube in 1 second are hoping to beat a world record. Jay Flatland and Paul Rose say their machine can finish the 3D combination puzzle ...