With a new Major League Baseball season here, a major change will play a unique role in how the year progresses. Coming to the majors this season is the Automated Ball-Strike Challenge System, or ABS ...

After tinkering with the Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) challenge system for a few years, MLB brought the technology to the regular season in 2026. It didn’t take long before the new technology was put ...

Richie Garcia is worried about the impact that robot umpires will have on their human counterparts. Major League Baseball introduced the Automated Ball-Strike System for regular-season play this ...

Another major change is coming to MLB. Just years after the ghost runner and pitch clock rules significantly changed the rhythm of baseball, shortening game length, the league is now addressing a ...

Axiom Math is giving away a powerful new AI tool. But it remains to be seen if it speeds up research as much as the company hopes. Axiom Math, a startup based in Palo Alto, California, has released a ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess ...

During the World Baseball Classic, most of the rules are fairly similar to what fans will see during a typical MLB game played in the United States. One notable difference, however, is that the ...

NEW YORK -- The Athletics had the highest success rate using the automated ball-strike system to overturn ball/strike calls during the first 10 days of spring training, winning 69.2% of challenges as ...

MLB's Automated Ball-Strike challenge system is again part of spring training, but unlike last year, it will remain once the regular season starts. It's about to profoundly change baseball. K.C.

SCOTTSDALE -- Major League Baseball finalized rules for the first year of the automated ball-strike (ABS) challenge system, which will debut on Opening Day this season. Among the latest tweaks, teams ...