Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. I’m British, and if I ...

So, OK, optical illusions do tend to seem much more of an unsolvable mystery after, say, your first day back to work after a three-day holiday weekend — but I promise, regardless of when you check ...

Lay the empty cardboard toilet paper tube flat on the table Press it flat as shown Now, open your tube back up and line up the two creases inside the tube that you just made when you pressed it flat ...

So first of all, an "Illusion of the Year" contest exists. Let that sink in for second. Cool. Now this year, a finalist created an "ambiguous cylinder illusion" and after watching this mind-bending ...