As a European court rules that the iconic toy can't be trademarked, we go back to an earlier interview with Erno Rubik, who explained what inspired him to design that singular brain-and-fingers toy ...

Space junk is made of hundreds of millions of fragments orbiting Earth — and while it isn't a giant space bin, a small high-tech cube could be used to help hoover up some of the debris.

(The Rubik’s Cube, with roughly as many moving parts, has only around 4 × 10¹⁹ states.) A YouTube viewer calculated that exactly half of Continental Drift’s states are attainable.

CHANG: I barely, like, register that the cube is solved when I'm watching the video 'cause it happens so instantaneously. PATROHAY: Yes, yes. And it's loud as well, by the way, in person.