Kids get together to practice the Rubik’s Cube, teach others, exchange advice and tips and watch videos to help them solve it ...

Java 26, due in March with structured concurrency, lazy constants, AOT object caching, and primitive types in patterns, instanceof, and switch, has entered a second rampdown phase for bug fixes. Java ...

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Users can note which content they would like to view more frequently. Instagram is handing users some control in deciding what content they see. The social media giant is allowing users to have a say ...

Whether he’s hanging upside-down, or juggling or playing video games with his other free hand, the quick-fingered cuber Ethan Jan (USA) has claimed three world record titles for his unique skills with ...

Media personalities and online influencers who sow social division for a living, blame the rise of assassination culture on Antifa and MAGA. Meanwhile, tech CEOs gin up fears of an AI apocalypse. But ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

As the world races to build artificial superintelligence, one maverick bioengineer is testing how much unprogrammed intelligence may already be lurking in our simplest algorithms to determine whether ...

Leave it to Valve to announce some new hardware out of left field that quietly one-ups its competition, except for maybe Nintendo. If anything, Nintendo might be an inspiration for the PC czar and its ...

Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price. Unhappy with their meager profits, they meet one night in a ...

I assume that there would be rights clearance to be done; but it seems outright criminal to add screens to a Rubik's cube and not use a "We have such sights to show you" reference; ideally including a ...