26 sheep, 10 goats & ship’s captain: Unsolvable math problem puzzles Chinese students

Students in southwestern China were confounded by a seemingly impossible math question involving sheep, goats, and the captain of a ship. Some of the top-notch answers they came up with appeared in the Chinese media. The question – posed to grade five pupils at a school in Nanchong, Sichuan province – asked the students to […]

Cisco thinks it’s solved an “unsolvable” encryption security challenge (CSCO)

Becky Peterson Cisco has come up with a whole new way to fight malware.  On Tuesday, the company unveiled a new smart network system. Using machine learning, the network’s Encrypted Traffic Analytics software can sort through internet data to look for telltale signs of malicious software. The service is specifically designed to detect malware in encrypted traffic, and Cisco […]

A Look Back At Fez’s Unsolvable “Black Monolith” Puzzle 

Vibrantly-pixelated indie darling Fez turned five years old this week, so it’s the perfect time to celebrate the game’s strangest puzzle and the community of players who devoted themselves to solving it. Released in April of 2012 on Xbox Live Arcade, Fez seemed like a retro-throwback from an alternate reality; the kind of made-up game […]