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 ...

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 ...

Tutorials might well be the bane of the video game industry's existence. Teaching a player how to do something is surprisingly difficult to do. Even if a developer crafts an educational and ...

Today, table tennis is a popular global sport played by amateurs and professionals alike — a game that can be a casual pastime or an intense, fast-paced exchange. But in the 1940s and 1950s, the game ...

Brothers Josh and Benny Safdie, the indie filmmakers who made a splash with the 2019 Adam Sandler drama "Uncut Gems," have decided to amicably split and make movies on their own. Yet, funnily enough, ...

One day, Marty Supreme star Timothée Chalamet can be found in São Paulo, breaking out in full dance to Soulja Boy’s “Crank Dat (Soulja Boy).” Another day, he’s visiting current WWE Champion Cody ...

The sound of clinking glasses pierced over the din at Lucky Danger in D.C.’s Chinatown. Past the tables filled with diners and happy hour patrons on a Wednesday night, toward the back and beyond ...

Every industry has its defining moment, one spark that ignites an entire cultural movement. In gaming, that spark wasn’t a blockbuster console launch or a cinematic open-world epic, but something far ...

“Ping-Pong,” by Palestinian writer-director Saleh Saadi, competed in the development category of this year’s Cairo Film Connection, and won the I Sound Award, worth $20,000 in sound services, a ...

Shams Charania: I heard a funny story, you know, he spent a week in Houston working out with Hakeem Olajuwon. You know, every day they're having these on court sessions and then afterward they would ...