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All Rubik’s cube variations solvable in 25 moves

The childhood toy, the Rubik’s cube, has been proven to be solvable from any initial configuration set in 25 moves, one less than the 26 proven last year by a group at Northeastern University. Tomas Rokicki, a mathematician by school, uses a rather nifty piece of computer science. Rokicki’s proof is a neat piece of [...]

No Moore for Intel/AMD?

Gordon Moore, the unassuming billionaire co-founder of Intel Corp, says the end of the technology maxim bearing his name is drawing to a close, perhaps as soon as 10 years from now. Moore’s Law — based on the San Francisco native’s observation in 1965 that the number of transistors on a computer chip doubles [...]