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...program called Crosstalk at his home in Woodstock, Ga., that allows different kinds of computers to communicate with one another. So far, its sales have reached $1 million. Jeff Gold of Saratoga, Calif, was only 15 when he created a program in his bedroom that solved the puzzle of Rubik's Cube. A thousand copies were sold before Gold, now 16, came up with a second winner: a program to prevent the theft of other programs. Gold is making $2,000 a week from the proceeds of both creations, and he recently bought himself a new $18,000 Datsun...
...industrious copycats of Asia have long churned out counterfeit or cut-rate versions of name-brand Western products, including Levi's jeans, Samsonite luggage, Johnnie Walker Scotch, Rolex watches and even Rubik's Cube. Now the me-too factories of the Pacific rim have a new target: the popular Apple personal computer...
...math whizzes. Or straight-A students. Or particularly precocious. They are reasonably normal youngsters who have grown up with computers. For them, in ways that few people over 30 can understand, manipulating these complex machines is as natural as riding a bike, playing baseball or even solving Rubik's cube. Like thousands of others across...
...Deathtrap is enjoyable, if easily forgotten. That its advertisements feature a giant rubik's cube probably says a lot about the film. You might not guess its first few moves, but once on your way things seem to get more and more obvious. A pleasant experience, if not a lasting one. And the novelty soon wears...
...life would be drab otherwise. Were the puzzle not useless enough, the craze has spawned several books which, as they compete for space on the best-seller list with dead felines, make impoverished math graduate students rich. For all the collectors of bottomless ashtrays, Rubik's Cubes now come in monocolored and multicolored, but two faced, models, neither of which encloses a solution. The success of ideal Toy Corporation resembles, that of the Grot Company, a creation of British television Grot sells only useless things. After the sales of Rubik's Cube and its various geometrically precise successors decline, American...