Footbag and speed cubing are two activities that may seem worlds apart, but both do wonders for improving your hand-eye coordination. While footbag involves juggling a small bag with your feet, speed ...

Social media companies and their respective algorithms have repeatedly been accused of fueling political polarization by promoting divisive content on their platforms. Now, two U.S. Senators have ...

Abstract: Evolutionary reinforcement learning (ERL), which integrates the evolutionary algorithms (EAs) and reinforcement learning (RL) for optimization, has demonstrated remarkable performance ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

This weekend, Edinburgh will host the first major cubing competition in Scotland since the Scottish Championships back in May ...

DuBOIS — At the age of 9, Sebastian Brillon of DuBois excels in a competitive sport that many may be unfamiliar with — speedcubing. And, after just a few months of practicing, he has qualified for ...

40 competitors from across the country gathered at Downtown Container Park on Fremont Street for the PSL's double elimination competitive tournament. LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — Every speed cuber has a story ...

Every time a new slang word gets coined on the Internet, linguist Adam Aleksic is thrilled. “It’s definitely good for me in that I stay in business,” says Aleksic, who studies the origins of words and ...

Ever wondered how social media platforms decide how to fill our feeds? They use algorithms, of course, but how do these algorithms work? A series of corporate leaks over the past few years provides a ...

If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle the easiest pieces first. But this kind of sorting has a cost.

The Canadian speedcubing championship is taking place in Montreal for the first time. It's attracted more than 200 competitors representing 14 countries. Some attempt to solve the cube with one hand ...