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Baseball ushers in high-tech replay review system for calling balls and strikes

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For more than a century, baseball’s home plate umpires have called a ball or strike based on interpretation of a vague, loosely defined strike zone. These subjective calls decided at-bats, games, seasons and pennants — and, naturally, stirred endless debate. Now, for the first time, this season Major League Baseball is instituting a review system … Read more

High-tech snowplows and AI help cities clean up from big storms

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Residents of Syracuse, New York — America’s snowiest city — once barraged a service hotline with street neglect complaints during blizzards, even if plows had passed two hours earlier but the work was hidden by fresh snow. Now public trust seems to be rising as Syracuse and other cities across the U.S. integrate upgrades such … Read more