It’s the best of times and the worst of times for people whose job it is to teach others how to do their own jobs better, adapt to change, and get the hang of new technologies. Organizations are ...

Major League Baseball is preparing the automated ball-strike system, or ABS, for its biggest test yet this spring training. MLB has used the so-called robo-umps in the minors, but this will be the ...

Robot umpires are officially knocking on the door of MLB. Commissioner Rob Manfred told The Athletic's Evan Drellich on Wednesday that the league will test an automated ball-strike challenge system in ...

Fans' calls for a computer-based version of the strike zone to replace human umpires aren't uncommon these days. That's especially true whenever a borderline call is revealed to have gone the wrong ...

Smoke, a short-legged Lab mix, came to us out of the woods here on the edge of Bankhead National Forest, and until recently, back into the woods he frequently went, sometimes for days, anytime he ...

Major League Baseball is testing automated systems that will keep track of balls and strikes. Teams will be able to challenge calls they don’t like. The system could be a part of regular-season play ...

Robo umps are coming to major league spring training, but they won’t make it to the field yet. The automated balls-and-strikes software, alternatively called “ABS” or “ESZ” (electronic strike zone), ...