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 ...

Any movie that is based on even a grain of truth always captures my interest. Couple that with the world of championship ping pong in the 1950s and Marty Supreme is a movie that we just had to see.

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Playables Builder uses Gemini 3 to turn short text, image, or video prompts into bite-sized games. Creators can generate playable experiences in minutes by simply describing their game idea. The tool ...

Forget everything you know about playing ping-pong in your friend’s unfinished basement. Forget the casual beer pong games. Josh Safdie’s Marty Supreme has arrived to radicalize you. By the time the ...

The Indie Game Awards has stripped Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 of both its Game of the Year and Debut Game awards, citing the roleplaying game's use of generative AI. Run by Six One Indie, the annual ...

In IRA expert Ed Slott’s recent monthly newsletter, Ryan McKeown, CPA, CFP, a senior vice president and financial adviser with Wealth Enhancement, wrote an excellent article summarizing the advantages ...

The Avatar video game is better than the movies. I say this as someone who has dumbly adored James Cameron’s Avatar movies for a long time. The original 2009 film was my first ever midnight premiere, ...

“YouTube is launching a closed Beta test for Playables Builder, a prototype web app built using Gemini 3 where users create games with short text, video or image prompts,” the company says. You can ...

Google's at it again, once more insisting that AI is something people need or want more of in their lives. The latest move comes from YouTube Gaming, which announced an open beta for a project called ...