Chinese table tennis athlete Sun Yingsha (left) plays against a US athlete at a friendship match on Sunday in Las Vegas, Nevada to commemorate the 54th anniversary of "ping-pong diplomacy". LIA ZHU / ...

Oscar nominee Timothee Chalamet answered to "sweet tea" and praised a table tennis champion as he wooed Chinese fans on Tuesday in Beijing, days before the Academy Awards.

A smart ping pong table reacts to every shot, adjusting in real time for dynamic gameplay. Federal worker fired after hanging trans flag at Yosemite sues government Mike Johnson reveals special guests ...

All of the men nominated for best actor at the Academy Awards this year know how to command a scene. But let’s be honest: How many of them can both act and play table tennis? It’s just one, baby. And ...

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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 ...

Oakland A's catcher Jhonny Pereda is one of many pro athletes who plays ping-pong. Illustration: Dan Goldfarb / The Athletic; Justine Willard / Athletics / Getty Images This story is part of Peak, The ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Josh Safdie’s Marty Supreme stars Timothée Chalamet as an obnoxious, nerdy young 1950s ping-pong hustler who somehow cons everyone around him. It’s flashy, fast, and made with so much talent it’s a ...