As a European court rules that the iconic toy can't be trademarked, we go back to an earlier interview with Erno Rubik, who explained what inspired him to design that singular brain-and-fingers toy ...

A Rubik’s Cube has one core, eight corner cubies, and 12 edge cubies. Creative Commons/Wikivisual The immediate math to be done with those numbers is the total number of ways you can scramble a ...

The Rubik's Cube was created 50 years ago by Hungarian inventor Ernő Rubik. Since then, over 500 million of them have been sold. We dive into this global phenomenon that's captured the ...

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 ...

CHINA UNVEILS ITS FIRST FULL-SIZE ELECTRIC RUNNING HUMANOID ROBOT. A record shattered. The human record for solving the Rubik’s Cube, an impressive 3.13 seconds, was set by Max Park in 2023.

Among this subset of keeners were Bram Cohen, a computer programmer (and the inventor of BitTorrent, a file-sharing protocol) who devises Rubik’s-like puzzles, such as the Maltese Gear Cube (in ...

A pimply teenager walked us through “The Easiest 10-Minute Rubik’s Cube Lesson,” demonstrating specific processes to tackle each side. Over and over, I fumbled the righty and lefty algorithms.

A new robot can solve a Rubik's Cube faster than the average person can blink. The machine, designed by a team of students at Purdue University, solves the cube in about a tenth of a second and it ...

Most kids can't wait for the final bell of the school day. But at Aloha Huber Park Elementary in Beaverton, some students stay after school to learn about algorithms -- through a Rubik's Cube.