The three-number rule, also known as the rule of thumb, is that a digit must appear three times per chute but only once per row, column and box. Remember, a chute refers to any three adjacent ...

Google Goggles for Android has received a new update (version 1.3), allowing users to take a photo of an unsolved Sudoku puzzle, the software will then analyse it and solve it upon request. Google ...

An augmented reality Sudoku-solving app that only works with completely empty puzzles might be kind of pointless, but it definitely serves as an impressive demonstration of just what can be done when ...

A new version of global search engine Google can now solve Sudoku, the popular maths puzzle which took the world by storm with its simple grid of digits and empty boxes -- no matter what the level of ...

Augmented reality is still mostly a gimmick. But an instantaneous sudoku solver can teach us an important lesson–novelty isn’t worth friction. But there’s a twist. As a good friend, and fanatical ...

Scientists are like you and me: they sometimes need to relax. This is why Veit Elser, professor at Cornell University, has applied an algorithm developed for X-ray diffraction microscopy to solve ...

The appeal of sudoku has spread to the prokaryotic world. A strain of Escherichia coli bacteria can now solve the logic puzzles – with some help from a group of students at the University of Tokyo, ...

The appeal of sudoku has spread to the prokaryotic world. A strain of Escherichia coli bacteria can now solve the logic puzzles – with some help from a group of students at the University of Tokyo, ...