MLB.com At Bat 13 mobile app launched Thursday with multiple new features

The top sports mobile app in each of the past four years was launched on Thursday by Major League Baseball Advanced Media with a suite of new features across iPhone, iPad, supported Android smartphones and tablets and Kindle Fire — right in time for those first Major League Baseball exhibition games this weekend.

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TRADITION OR NOT, all sports will evolve,” the science-fiction novelist Arthur C. Clarke predicted: even “the grand old game” of Ruth and Mays would be transformed by bionic-armed pitchers wielding lightweight, non-leather gloves. The cyborgs haven’t arrived, but their catching device has. It has spent the off-season in a display case at the Baseball Hall of Fame, whose curators think they might be witnessing a “historic moment”: the birth of the glove of the future.

Read: The Glove That Would Change the Game - The Atlantic

@craigtimes: Computer writes sports brief. Reporter writes about computer replacing reporters. 

Computer-Generated Articles Are Gaining Traction

“WISCONSIN appears to be in the driver’s seat en route to a win, as it leads 51-10 after the third quarter. Wisconsin added to its lead when Russell Wilson found Jacob Pedersen for an eight-yard touchdown to make the score 44-3 … . ”

Those words began a news briefwritten within 60 seconds of the end of the third quarter of the Wisconsin-U.N.L.V. football game earlier this month. They may not seem like much — but they were written by a computer.

The clever code is the handiwork of Narrative Science, a start-up in Evanston, Ill., that offers proof of the progress of artificial intelligence — the ability of computers to mimic human reasoning.

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March Madness On Demand Is Back With The Craziest, Most Elaborate “Boss Button” Ever

It is clicked millions of times per year, so it’s not just an afterthought.

In years past, it ranged from a boring, flat images of spreadsheets, to an ad for Comcast. This year, however, it’s the most elaborate “boss button” we’ve ever seen — an interactive email app that looks like Microsoft Outlook.

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March Madness at Your Fingertips

Now, for one of the biggest sporting events of the year, the N.C.A.A. men’s basketball tournament, they will get it free, as long as they own an Apple device and March Madness on Demand 2011.

This is one of three free apps that every fan should consider for March Madness, alongside ESPN Bracket Bound 2011 and NCAA Fan Zone — March Madness (for Android and Apple).

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