Good morning and welcome the kid news. I'm Kim. Today is Friday, February 8, 2019.

And we begin with a bounty for the 14-year-old boy who found Apple's FaceTime flaw.

The company now says it's giving official credit to Grant Thompson of Catalina Foothills High School

in Arizona, compensating him with a reward and providing an additional gift to help fund his college education.

The exact amount hasn't and probably won't be revealed.

As we reported last week, Grant discovered that FaceTime users could eavesdrop through someone else's

iPhone, even if the call hadn't been answered.

He flagged the problem right away, but it took more than a week for Apple to respond.

The company announced Grant's reward yesterday.

At the same time, it released an update that includes a fix for the FaceTime problem.

Spring Training is right around the corner, which means it's time for a major league baseball to float some possible new rules.

Reportedly up for consideration, a 20 second pitch clock to speed up the game and a three batter minimum

for relief pitchers no more bringing in a lefty just to face a lefty but the most polarizing

of the ideas is one that's been kicked around for a while.

The league is once again considering bringing the designated hitter to the National League.

This time though, the Players Union supports the the change so it may just happen.

Since necessity is the mother of invention this was probably inevitable.

Thanks to a Japanese food company, smartphone users no longer have to choose

between snacking and swiping. Fittingly, the brand is called one hand. Its

potato chips are pre-crushed and pour out of an angled opening like a drink,

so you can eat with one hand and scroll with the other, no more greasy phone screen. Its marketing

strategy is pretty bold. It calls itself the new snack

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