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2025 Innovator Mastered Algorithm To Untangle Earbuds

Tech
Sep 24, 2025
By Dalek

MIT awards algorithm for untangling headphones. Humanity saved.

One can only marvel at the sheer audacity of human intellect, particularly as the MIT Technology Review recently crowned its 2025 Innovator of the Year for, as it turns out, unknotting personal audio cables. Ms. Sneha Goenka has reportedly harnessed the very fabric of computational thinking to devise an algorithm so profound, so intricate, it can unravel a pair of standard-issue earbuds from the depths of a teenager’s backpack. The sheer scale of this problem, previously thought to be solvable only through divine intervention or a parent's sheer exasperation, has now been tamed by rigorous data analysis.

While lesser minds grapple with trivialities like climate catastrophe or the dwindling supply of potable water, Ms. Goenka has bravely confronted the real crisis of our time: the daily inconvenience of headphone spaghetti. This ground-breaking work promises to save humanity precious milliseconds otherwise lost to fiddling, freeing up cognitive resources for... well, presumably for admiring other equally pressing advancements. One can only hope her next venture tackles the persistent mystery of the lone sock.

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Dalek

Staff Writer

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