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 / ...

Japanese electronics giant Sony built the robotic arm it calls Ace and pitted it against professional athletes. Ace proved a ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — It may look like a simple game, but ping pong is being used as a tool to tackle mental health issues and support brain fitness. A new wellness program centered around table ...

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

Abstract: JavaScript is rapidly being deployed as binaries in security-critical embedded domains, including IoT devices, edge computing, and smart automotive applications. Ensuring the security of ...

TACOMA, Wash. — Students at Lincoln High School in Tacoma marked the 55th anniversary of “ping-pong diplomacy” on Tuesday, revisiting the 1971 table tennis exchange that helped open relations between ...

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 ...

Host Chelsea Handler joked that whoever got a ping pong paddle under their seat could spank Timothée Chalamet at an afterparty Tommy McArdle is a Writer-Reporter on the Movies team at PEOPLE. He ...