TBT: How to solve a Rubik's cube in 5 seconds or less

PLUS: The best WIRED stories from this month a year ago. View this email in your browser  |  Manage newsletter subscriptions 09.03.20 If you don't know the moves, the Rubik's Cube is one of the most difficult puzzles to solve. But with a few weeks of practice and a little memorization, not only can you impress your friend by solving it, you might be able to solve it in a few minutes or less. Read about the cubers who can solve in seconds, plus the best WIRED stories from this month a year ago below.   How to Solve a Rubik's Cube in 5 Seconds—or Less The world record for unscrambling a Rubik's cube keeps dropping, as fleet-fingered speedcubers hone their pattern recognition and "lookahead" skills. The Best Stories From This Month, Last Year Why Google's Quantum Victory Is a Huge Deal—and a Letdown When news leaked that Google scientists had achieved "quantum supremacy," researchers immediately clashed on its implications. Why the Porsche Taycan's Two-Speed Gearbox Is Such a Big Deal Want to improve an EV's range by 5 percent, or pump up its top speed? Trying shifting gears. Chinese Scientists Try to Cure One Man's HIV With Crispr For the first time, a patient got treated for HIV and cancer at the same time, with an infusion of gene-edited stem cells. The results? Mixed. What Happened to Urban Dictionary? The crowdsourced dictionary once felt like a pioneering tool of the early internet era. Now in its 20th year, it has become something much more inhospitable. Even Huge Molecules Follow the Quantum World's Bizarre Rules A record-breaking experiment shows an enormous molecule is also both a particle and a wave—and that quantum effects don't only apply at tiny scales. The Traces of Human Activity in the Burning Man Void Photographer Michael Light captures surreal, manmade marks in the Great Basin region.     This e-mail was sent to you by WIRED. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, wired@newsletters.wired.com, to your address book.   View our Privacy Policy Unsubscribe or manage your newsletter subscriptions