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 ...

Most athletes play ping-pong to whet their competitive instincts or kill time, but what if it could improve performance?

They introduce a new “game” called Sting Pong - basically taking turns getting hit with ping-pong balls. But it’s not really a game… it’s a setup, and the prank is already in motion. After the chaos, ...

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Safdie goes deep on his terror of table tennis matches and how he pulled them off through choreography, CGI, and Timothée Chalamet's training. “I had ADD, so I ...

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“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 ...

Timothée Chalamet's new movie "Marty Supreme" arrives in theaters nationwide on Christmas Day. Director Josh Safdie's genre-busting sports drama is rated R. The young actor deserved an Oscar for ...

BOTTOM LINE Chalamet leaves it all on the table in this high-stakes drama about a small-scale sport. Marty Mauser looks like a harmless sort with his skinny arms, wire-rimmed glasses and peach-fuzz ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dubbed “The Needle” for his thin build, Marty Reisman was an award-winning table tennis player known for his eccentric personality ...