In a flash of red, green, yellow, orange, blue and white, the cube torqued rapidly between the diligent fingers of eighth-grader Anna Halsdorf. Just 14 seconds later, the puzzle was solved. But ...

Ever since the Rubik’s Cube was released, it’s taunted almost a half billion tinkerers who think they can crack its confounding mysteries, only to be stymied by its maddening secrets. Now, it’s time ...

ROANOKE — In a flash of red, green, yellow, orange, blue and white, the cube torqued rapidly between the diligent fingers of eighth-grader Anna Halsdorf. Just 14 seconds later, the puzzle was solved.

The Rubik’s Cube looks like a simple kids’ toy, but anyone who has tried to line up the block’s colors knows how challenging it is. For experts, the current record is about three and a half seconds to ...

A deep reinforcement learning algorithm can solve the Rubik's Cube puzzle in a fraction of a second. The work is a step toward making AI systems that can think, reason, plan and make decisions. Since ...