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 ...

"The View" audience gasped as Goldberg doubled down on discussing sexual acts on the air: 'I'm gonna start practicing to shoot that ping-pong ball.' ...

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 the 1940s and '50s, New York City table tennis was a gritty subculture full of misfits, gamblers, doctors, actors, students and more. They competed, bet on the game or both at all-night spots like ...

Long before Timothée Chalamet starred in “Marty Supreme” — the hotly anticipated movie that hits theaters nationwide on Christmas Day — there was Marty “The Needle” Reisman, the wild-eyed, high-strung ...

For Tripp Roche, the most inspiring thing at his family’s restaurant isn’t the homemade pizza or lasagna. It’s the ping pong table upstairs. The hidden gem at Villa Tronco, Columbia’s oldest ...

EXCLUSIVE: Hot Ones, the buzzy talk show involving chicken wings, is getting another spinoff. First We Feast, the company behind the Sean Evans-hosted series, is debuting Hot Ones: Wing Pong later ...

What's the first game you ever played? Mine was Super Mario Advance 2, a bona fide banger and the only game I owned until around a year after I won a Game Boy Advance in a competition, much to my ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Pepper Pong is still bouncing. The pingpong-pickleball hybrid will soon hit the shelves at Dick’s Sporting Goods and Scheels, nearly a year after it bagged ...

Although not the first video game ever produced, Pong was the first to achieve commercial success and has had a tremendous influence on our culture as a whole. In Pong’s time, its popularity ushered ...

ALL RIGHT. PICKLEBALL AND PING PONG ARE TWO OF AMERICA’S FASTEST GROWING SPORTS. AND THERE’S A NEW CENTER IN MIDDLETOWN DEDICATED TO BOTH. AS SAM CARTER DISCOVERED, PICKLE AND PONG IS BASED AROUND ...