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The episode discusses the impact of new technology on sports, particularly focusing on the MLB's Automated Ball Strike System and its implications for the game.

A robot umpire that can overrule a bad strike call sounds like a win for fairness, until you remember how much people love the messy human side of sports. We kick things off with MLB’s Automated Ball Strike System (ABS) and the challenge mechanic behind it, then argue out the real question: is this tech protecting the game or slowly rewriting what baseball even feels like? From there we jump into tech current events, including Apple’s Neo MacBook buzz, supply chain pressure, and why “b...

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