Solving Rubik’s Cubes is a learnable skill. However, to compete at the top level, you’ll have to train hard. Speed cubers can solve a 3×3 cube in under ten seconds these days, after all. [aaedmusa] ...

The Rubik’s Cube has been around for decades. I’ve toyed with the cube, probably in the very late ‘80s or early ‘90s, but never imagined being able to solve one. But wouldn’t it be satisfying if I ...

Geek Life: Fun stories, memes, humor and other random items at the intersection of tech, science, business and culture. SEE MORE by Kurt Schlosser on Jan 25, 2016 at 1:47 pm January 25, 2016 at 1:47 ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Solving a Rubik's Cube can be difficult in itself - so a boy built a robot to do it for him. PHOTOS: Boy builds Lego robot to solve Rubik's Cube Solving a Rubik's Cube can be ...

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 ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. Don't ...

The Rubik’s Cube has only six faces, each presenting only nine cubelets, but the end result is to offer a mind-boggling number of permutations, only one of which embodies the desired solution. The ...

Competitions held in school gymnasiums are usually loud. But this one was different: All that was heard amid the silence was the whirring of plastic.

Have you ever just given up on a Rubik’s Cube? That’s what Paul Rose did as a kid. “I was around for the original phase in the early ‘80s, and had a puzzle back then, and messed around with it, and ...

Anybody who has trouble patting their head and rubbing their tummy is about to get blown away by Thaddeus Krueger. That’s because Krueger, a mechanical engineering major at Cedarville University in ...

Forget what you remember about the Rubik’s Cube that’s gathering dust in your mother’s attic with your old He-Mans. The iconic puzzle that gripped the public’s imagination and fell into disfavor just ...

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 ...