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 ...
Today on CNN10: We'll get the latest developments out of Davos, Switzerland, where leaders are gathered for this year's World Economic Forum as President Trump attempts to acquire Greenland. Then, ...
There’s a scene in the recent hit movie Marty Supreme in which Marty Mauser (Timothée Chalamet), an American table tennis champion and inveterate liar getting by on the skin of his teeth in post-WWII ...
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 ...
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.
A few years ago, when Jewish actor Timothée Chalamet said his next project involved ping pong, people were perplexed. The star had already been nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for his performance as ...
“Shark Tank” star Kevin O’Leary makes his acting debut in A24’s “Marty Supreme” alongside Timothée Chalamet, and one of his standout scenes involves spanking the Oscar-nominated actor with a ping pong ...
In a conversation with The Hollywood Reporter, the film's ping-pong consultant, Diego Schaaf, says he hopes the actor's wild press run "gives the sport the breakthrough it’s deserved." By Lexi Carson ...
In Marty Supreme, Timothée Chalamet plays a true hustler. The character is one of the world’s greatest table tennis players, and he is willing to do just about anything to prove it – and that means ...
“Drama is very important to me. I can’t undercut the drama,” notes one of the year’s most deeply carved cinematic characters, Marty Mauser, played by Timothée Chalamet with a staggering commitment to ...
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 ...