For a very long time, one of the go-to methods to depict “genius” in a movie was a character’s ability to solve a Rubik’s Cube. Since the Hungarian inventor and architect Ernõ Rubik created the cube in 1974, it has received critical acclaim from top mathematicians and scientists across the globe. Originally called the “Magic …
There are a number of very impressive examples of how artificial intelligence can accomplish things that humans simply can’t, but nothing is cooler than seeing AI married to robotics. OpenAI, the artificial intelligence research group that counts Elon Musk among its founders, has been working on honing the skills of its neural networks in various ways, …
In today’s modern world, where cars can park themselves and be summoned with the press of a button, it perhaps shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that there’s a robot capable of solving a Rubik’s Cube in just about one second flat (1.019 seconds to be exact). While that may seem too fast to be true …
Rubik’s Cubes were the annoying puzzles that parents used to use to keep their children busy before video games became a thing. However, some young people still do play with Rubik’s Cubes and they’re actually astoundingly good at them. One such person is Australian teenager Feliks Zemdegs, who recently won the Rubik’s Cube World Championship by …
