Engineers developed a ping-pong-playing robot that quickly estimates the speed and trajectory of an incoming ball and precisely hits it to a desired location on the table. MIT engineers are getting in ...

There were no idle hands at Sharpa's CES booth. The company's humanoid may have been the busiest bot at show, autonomously playing ping-pong, dealing blackjack games and taking selfies with passersby.

Ping drivers have always been known for being “brick s***houses” - as our gear director Johnny Wunder likes to say - that no matter where you hit it on the face, you barely lose any speed and it flies ...

For Pico Iyer, making his acting debut in the hit movie “Marty Supreme” was the latest journey in a life full of unexpected voyages. By Pico Iyer The author’s TED Talk “What Ping-Pong Taught Me About ...

When writer Lisa Lucas visited Phoenix, Arizona, she learned about the table tennis player Thelma Thall, who won two world championships in the 1950s. Thall competed in a male-dominated world shaped ...

At CES 2026, Singapore-based company Sharpa has redefined general-purpose robotics with the debut of its first autonomous humanoid. Named North, the robot has been designed to showcase that autonomous ...

In October 2024, we reported on a new Timothée Chalamet movie that was shooting on the Lower East Side, and now that movie is in theaters! You can catch a glimpse of the set we visited in the trailer ...

A player serving on an outdoor court. In 2022, the Association of Pickleball Professionals estimated there were 36.5 million pickleball players in the U.S. Getty Images Court tennis was the first ...

Josh Safdie's film is no biopic, but it's heavily indebted to the life and talents of ping-pong champ Marty Reisman.