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Yahoo
27-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Onslow County Sheriff's Office and Jacksonville Police Department team up for Kits4Kids
ONSLOW COUNTY, N.C. (WNCT) — The Onslow County Sheriff's Office is teaming up with the Jacksonville Police Department to assemble and receive Kits4Kids. The First Responder Kits4Kids program as developed to help alleviate kid's anxiety during emergency situations. The program was developed by North Carolina men James Fisher-Davis and Kevin Gatlin. The two are devoted fathers who saw a need for children to be comforted during traumatic emergencies. Every kit contains a playtime disposable play pad that has 25 interactive activities, crayons, a Rubik's cube, a miniature emergency vehicle, Play-Doh, a puzzle, noise cancelling earplugs, a colorful stress ball, hand wipes and a hand written note from first responders to provide encouragement. The event will happen on June 11, at 10am at the Jacksonville Department of Public Safety. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Indian Express
16-05-2025
- Science
- Indian Express
Faster than a blink: 4 students set Guinness World Record with Rubik's Cube-solving robot
Imagine a Rubik's Cube being solved faster than the blink of an eye? Unimaginable, right? Four students from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America, have achieved this feat using a robot they built. According to NBC News, this student team created a robot to solve a Rubik's cube in just 0.103 seconds, setting a Guinness World Record last month. Their Rubik's Cube, aptly named 'Purdubik's Cube,' surpassed the previous record set by Mitsubishi Electric engineers in May 2024, whose robot could solve the puzzle in 0.305 seconds. The video shared by Guinness World Records on their Instagram account is going viral due to the lightning speed at which the robot completes the puzzle. At the beginning of the video, the robot solves the cube at regular speed, making the rapid resolution almost unbelievable. Later in the clip, it is slowed down to reveal the intricate workings of the robot as it solves the cube. The video has garnered 4.8 million views and is posted with the caption, 'Fastest robot to solve a puzzle cube: 0.103 seconds by Matthew Patrohay, Junpei Ota, Aden Hurd, and Alex Berta of @ In the comments section, the Guinness World Records account said, 'Blink and you'll miss it!' A student named Matthew Patrohay from Purdue University's Purdubik's Cube team told the GSW, 'We solve it in 103 milliseconds. A human blink takes about 200 to 300 milliseconds. So, before you even realise it's moving, we've already solved it.' A post shared by Guinness World Records (@guinnessworldrecords) Responding to the video, one user commented, 'If you actually time a blink the moment it starts, you literally can't see it move. That's amazing, congrats to everyone involved.' Another user wrote, 'Respect for the Rubik's cube for actually getting solved and not disintegrating in a million pieces.' A third user provided insight into the cube's mechanics, saying, 'By the look of it, the robot is aiming for a FMC solving rather than a speedcubing one. Speedcubing consists in resolving it the fastest way possible by using moves that are easier to do with your fingers. FMC is the Fewest Move Challenges. Since a machine isn't limited by fingers' movement, FMC becomes speedcubing. This is quite interesting.' The robot, located on the Purdue campus in West Lafayette, uses machine vision for colour recognition, custom-solving algorithms optimised for execution time and industrial-grade motion control hardware, according to a Purdue University press release. The team, consisting of engineering students Junpei Ota, Aden Hurd, Matthew Patrohay, and Alex Berta, initially designed their robot for the Spark Challenge, a design competition held in December 2024 at Purdue's Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. After winning first place, they continued to enhance the robot with sponsorship support from Purdue's Institute for Control, Optimisation, and Networks as reported by NBC News.
Time of India
13-05-2025
- General
- Time of India
Chess helps Satara's Aryan score 95.4% in SSC
Kolhapur: Sharp focus and deep concentration, skills honed over the chessboard, have helped Satara's Aryan Pardeshi excel in academics. A student of Satara's Annasaheb Kalyani Vidyalay semi-English medium school, Aryan secured 95.4% in SSC."I have been playing chess since the age of 5. I started taking chess seriously in Class VIII. However, I have never compromised with my studies. The game helps me stay focused for hours, which helps me in my studies as well," said Aryan, who runs a YouTube channel featuring Rubik's cube solutions.A senior clerk's son, he aspires to study engineering at IIT while advancing his chess career. Every day, he dedicates at least one to two hours to chess. His FIDE international chess ranking stands at 1,534. He has also claimed the district chess championship title for three years running and excelled in zonal competitions. In Satara district's Bahule village, another Aryan has overcome daily challenges to excel in the crucial exam. Aryan Panaskar, who has a disabled mother and a father who works in Mumbai as a worker, scored 87%, powered solely by his grit and determination.
