This CD player has my heart because it combines the two tech trends Im absolutely on board with transparency and retro-revival. Meet the MusicFrame M1 a CD player that turns albums into art. Designed to look like framed art, the M1 is, in fact, a gadget that plays compact discs. Sitting within the frame is a transparent enclosure that houses a CD player. The components are bare-bones, giving you a gorgeous look at the players internal architecture. Place a CD in and the CDs album art becomes the frames art.Its a strategy that the folks at CoolGeek know too well, having made a similar Vinyl player in the past that held the vinyl disc vertically for everyone to admire. Now that the vinyl resurgence is complete, CoolGeeks moving to the next format of disc-based audio the humble CD. For those of us who still remember untangling headphones or curating the perfect mix CD, theres something undeniably sentimental about reviving these shiny discs. If youve got them buried somewhere in a drawer or a closet, this $99 player might just be the best way to play/display them!Designer: CoolGeekClick Here to Buy Now: $99 $179 ($80 off) Hurry! Only 160 of 500 units leftThe CoolGeek MusicFrame M1 isnt your dads bulky stereo system or even your old Discman. This stunning device reimagines the CD player as a floating frame that elevates both form and function. Designed with high-transparency acrylic, the MusicFrame is all about showcasing the CD as a visual and auditory centerpiece. When a disc spins inside the frame, it transforms into a dynamic piece of art, with its album artwork taking on a gallery-like presence. Spotify wishes it looked this coolWhats striking about the MusicFrame M1 is how it balances modern minimalism with vintage flair. Its clean geometric design looks at home in any space, whether mounted on a wall or perched elegantly on a table. The rotating disc sits perfectly in the center of the frame, with the players components behind it. a remote controls playback, and a seven-segment display on top gives you player information like song-length, track number, and player mode.The CoolGeek MusicFrame M1 offers versatile playback modes to suit both modern and retro setups. While its primarily a CD player, it supports Bluetooth 5.0 and a 3.5mm aux input, making it compatible with wireless speakers and traditional audio systems alike. It doesnt have built-in speakers, which emphasizes its role as a high-design accessory meant to integrate with your favorite sound setup. It also harks back to the Discman days when most disc players came with an aux cable and an understanding that youd use your favorite wired headphones. For audiophiles, the MusicFrame is compatible with CD-DA, CD-R, CD-RW, MP3, and WMA formats, offering plenty of flexibility for revisiting music collections over the years.Adding to its practicality is the inclusion of a remote control, letting you adjust volume, switch tracks, or change playback modes with ease. The player sports a built-in lithium battery (3.7V/2600mAh) ensuring it can run wirelessly, further adding to its versatility as both a functional and decorative piece. Measuring just 318 mm wide and 229 mm tall, the MusicFrame M1 just as easily sits on tabletop surfaces as it does hanging on walls. My only recommendation choose a CD with gorgeous album art to add to the MusicFrames appeal I hear Black Parade by My Chemical Romance is a great pick.What makes the MusicFrame M1 truly special is how it taps into a collective longing for tangible connections in a digital world. Streaming platforms have given us the convenience of having the worlds music library at our fingertips, but theyve stripped away the tactile joy of owning, holding, and displaying music. The M1 doesnt just let you play a compact discit lets you celebrate it as an artifact of creativity and culture, bringing back the sheer nostalgia of the pre-MP3 era. Or heck, even the post-MP3 era when downloading dubious tracks on Limewire and burning them on CDs was a thing!CoolGeeks offering feels perfectly attuned to a broader design trend that values the fusion of art and technology. Its not hard to see the parallels with brands like Nothing, whose transparent earbuds transform tech into something you admire aesthetically as much as you use functionally. Or Teenage Engineering, whose devices are as much about sparking nerdy joy as they are about performing well. The MusicFrame M1 belongs in that same categorya product thats as much about the visual and emotional experience as it is about the sound.The MusicFrame M1 starts at a mere $99, which is a pretty affordable price for the ultimate nostalgia trip. It makes for great wall or table art, or even the perfect gift for a millennial or a Gen-X kid. Heck, at that price its literally cheaper than Spotifys yearly subscription! The MusicFrame comes in two colors white or black, with global shipping starting in March 2025.Click Here to Buy Now: $99 $179 ($80 off) Hurry! Only 160 of 500 units leftThe post This $99 Transparent CD Player Frame Is the Ultimate Retro Tech Flex first appeared on Yanko Design.

Not to be outdone by its close rival OpenAI, Meta has announced its plans to spend $60 to $65 billion on AI infrastructure this year, and is building a data center almost as big as Manhattan.In a Facebook post, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced his companys intent to build a 2GW data center, bring roughly 1GW of compute online in 2025, and end the year with more than 1.3 million GPUs. Included in his post was a blueprint of the planned Richland Parish Center Data Center superimposed on a map of Manhattan (the data center will actually be in northeast Louisiana).

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33impressed audiences once again with its excellent showing at the recent Xbox Developer_Direct showcase, following which developer Sandfall Interactive has shared further details. Specifically, the developer has shared the upcoming turn-based RPGs full PC requirements (via Steam)- which are refreshingly modest.On minimum settings (1080p and 30 FPS), for instance, players will need either an i7-8700K or a Ryzen 5 1600X, along with either a GeForce GTX 1070 Ti (8 GB), a Radeon RX Vega 56 (8 GB), or an Arc A580 (8 GB), and 8 G of RAM.On recommended settings (1080p and 60 FPS), meanwhile, youll need either an i7-11700K or a Ryzen 5 5600X, and either a GeForce RTX 3070 (8 GB) or a Radeon RX 6800 XT (16 GB), alongside 16 GB of RAM. On either setting, youll also need about 55 GB of free storage space. Check out the full requirements below.Clair Obscur: Expedition 33launches for PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC on April 24.

With a new story trailer and a chunk of new details, Ubisoft is continuing to fan the flames of hype forAssassins Creed Shadows.As part of that rollout, the company has also revealed what to expect from the upcoming action RPGs full suite of accessibility features.According to UX director Jonathan Bedard, withShadows,Ubisoft took the opportunity to retool, enhance, and improve its accessibility suite in various ways.Having changed the way we built the game, we had to redo many things, and it allowed us to revisit some elements that werent working as well as wed hoped, he said. Certain features benefited from this by being retooled or by simply changing the interface itself or in some cases, the functionalities to elevate our offer and our experience to higher standards.Assassins Creed Shadowsaccessibility features will range from basic options such as aim assist, subtitles, and HUD customizaiton, to more elaboration options, such as a mode to simplify combat, a mode to simplify exploration, and four separate difficulty options for combat and stealth each.You can also expect plenty of camera options, audio description for cinematics, screen narration, visual assists like colour blindness options, tutorials in the Codex section, and fully remappable controls. You can check out the full list of accessibility features below.Assassins Creed Shadowslaunches on March 20 for PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC. Its release will be accompanied by the paunch of the Animus Hub.ACCESSIBILITY FEATURES LISTVisualColorblind options Ability to change colors for certain gameplay elements from a list of presetsScreen Narration Not only most menu items, but also many HUD modules and time-sensitive elements can be narratedHUD Customization Ability to turn all HUD elements on or off either all at once, or individually, either with shortcut or using presets increase opacity, resize text, resize Icons or add background to increase readabilityScreen shake on/off toggleAudioSubtitles Better color modifications, speaker directions and speaker emotionsGameplay Captions Surfacing stimuli and points to their originsAudio Description for Cinematics Cinematic will be audio descriptedAudio Cues/Audio Glossary New signs and feedback allowing navigation and path finding with non-visual cuesSeparate, isolated audio slidersNavigation and GuidanceFTUE First time user experience flow is back, offering first-access critical optionsGuided Mode Offer streamlined systems and remove part of the gameplay to alleviate the requirement for player engagement in exploration and finding contentTutorials Section Tutorials can be found in the Codex section at any timeMenu Tutorials Always alerts when there are new menu functionsConversation Log Every line can be perused from the start to the end of a dialogueControlsControl Remapping Remap gameplay inputs, and their action (hold, press, double-press)Many inputs devices Mouse and keyboard, controllers, combinationsLock-On Camera Lock the camera on an enemyX and Y axis inversion Ability to invert the axis for aiming actionsStick inversion Invert the analog-stick behaviorGameplayStealth and combat each have four separate difficulty settingsGuided Mode Offer streamlined systems and remove part of the gameplay to alleviate the requirement for player engagement in exploration and finding contentCanon Mode Enable automatic selection of narrative decisions for the canon story to unfoldMelee Attack Mode Simplifies the combat by using a single input instead of multiple buttons or complex combinationsQuick Timed Events Type of input required to complete Quick Time Events can be simplified, or skipped entirelyAim Assistance Four levels of aim assistance are offered (off, light, moderate, full)

Ayaneo builds the best-looking handheld PCs in the business, but theyve always been boutique. The 2023 Ayaneo 2, for example, cost $1,300 for an arguably worse experience than the $400 Steam Deck. But that experience isnt dampening my excitement for the new 7-inch Ayaneo 3. Not only does this one start at $900, within striking distance of the highest-end handhelds youll find at retail, its the most feature-packed portable Ive seen with two USB4 ports and OcuLink and RGB-ringed Hall effect joysticks and your choice of two seemingly killer screens. Perhaps most exciting: a way to finally fix a handhelds joystick and button layout to match your ergonomic preferences!Just watch:Finally. Animation by AyaneoAyaneo is calling the Ayaneo 3 the worlds first modular handheld, because therell be other modular options too. An extra $139 buys a set of six modules that let you swap out your joysticks for analog sticks, a six-button microswitch pad for fighting games, or even D-pads and face buttons with conductive silicone underneath for a different feel. Six modules and extra joystick toppers come with the Magic Module kit. Image: AyaneoBut importantly, that basic module that lets you change joystick and button orientation and swap joystick caps comes with the handheld by default, and its not the only feature Ayaneo is impressively cramming into the $900 kit. While youll only get a Ryzen 8840U, 16GB of LPDDR5X RAM, and 512GB of storage that that price no Z2 option, and the HX 370 model starts at $1500 you do get your choice of OLED or IPS right away. That OLED screen is a 1080p 144Hz HDR OLED panel promising 800 nits of global brightness and 110 percent of the DCI-P3 color gamut, specs which suggest it could even beat the Steam Deck OLEDs excellent screen.An actual photo of the Ayaneo 3. Image: AyaneoLike the Deck OLED, it unfortunately doesnt have variable refresh rate for added smoothness but if thats important, the IPS panel option does! That ones a 120Hz, 500-nit, native landscape 1080p display, according to the company, with 7ms response time and only 100 percent sRGB coverage (read: nowhere near as colorful as the OLED panel). On top of all that, the Ayaneo 3 comes standard with both top and bottom USB4 ports, both of which are capable of 65W PD charging, plus the still-rare-on-handhelds Oculink port for eGPUs, and it takes full-length M.2 2280 SSDs for easy storage upgrades.Plus, theres a dedicated hardware mode switch on the bottom edge to switch the controller and virtual-mouse-and-keyboard modes. I doubt that will make up for the current state of Windows, but it could help! Also, new trigger locks for its Hall effect triggers, if you want to switch them into a hair trigger mode.I do have a few hesitations, even without having touched the Ayaneo 3. First, the company says its modules electronically latch into the frame you have to eject them by pressing a software button, which activates a motor to release the latch. Sounds potentially fiddly?Second, Im sorry to report that this 1.5-pound handheld only fits a 49 watt-hour battery, even though the Asus ROG Ally X manages to fit an 80 watt-hour pack into roughly the same weight. Fingers crossed, but I wouldnt expect great battery life here with neither a giant battery pack nor a particularly handheld-optimized chip.Lastly, its always important to point out that these products are crowdfunded, and while Ayaneo has a history of delivering its promised handhelds, they havent always been great and this is the most ambitious one yet. If that sounds worthwhile, you can find the Ayaneo 3 on Indiegogo here. The company says the handheld should ship at the end of April; heres the whole price breakdown. Image: Ayaneo

LatestMachine LearningMachine Learning in Healthcare 0 like January 24, 2025Share this postAuthor(s): Rohan Rao Originally published on Towards AI. Diabetes Prediction with MLThis member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium.Photo by Stephen Dawson on UnsplashHow cool it sounds Machine Learning In Healthcare to you? It sounds more than a miracle to me. Machine learning trying to get on things in healthcare.I used to think what about doctors who has worked hard in this industry? Would they really accept a machines verdict?But as the time went on, I realized it has already started improving right from diagnosis and patients treatment, till patients monitoring and predicting health results.Using machine learning techniques/algorithms, we would try to predict whether a patient has diabetes or not. Seems simple? Sounds simple, but anything in healthcare has huge risk if proper accuracy is not achieved.In this article, our intention would just be understanding how machine learning technique could be used in healthcare problem and finding its solution.Lets get on to this job!For any machine learning prediction model building, from technology part we would require the following things:Python https://www.python.org/downloads/Jupyter Lab https://jupyter.org/installKaggle https://www.kaggle.com/code/melikedilekci/diabetes-dataset-for-beginners/inputKaggle is basically a hub of dataset for machine learning and data analysis. You would get free sample dataset for your model training Its absolutely FREE! (Well some dataset are Read the full blog for free on Medium.Join thousands of data leaders on the AI newsletter. Join over 80,000 subscribers and keep up to date with the latest developments in AI. From research to projects and ideas. If you are building an AI startup, an AI-related product, or a service, we invite you to consider becoming asponsor. Published via Towards AITowards AI - Medium Share this post

LatestMachine LearningAgents Are All You Need vs. Agents Are Not Enough: A Dueling Perspective on AIs Future 0 like January 24, 2025Share this postAuthor(s): Emil Walleser, DVM, PhD Originally published on Towards AI. This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium.The rapid evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) has sparked a compelling debate: Are autonomous agents sufficient to tackle complex tasks, or do they require integration within broader ecosystems to achieve optimal performance? As industry leaders and researchers share insights, the divide between these perspectives has grown more pronounced.Photo by Maximalfocus on UnsplashAn AI agent is an autonomous program designed to perform tasks on behalf of a user. These agents range from simple systems, such as thermostats that adjust temperature based on sensor input, to advanced applications like virtual assistants scheduling appointments or autonomous vehicles navigating traffic. AI agents distinguish themselves by learning, adapting, and making decisions independently, often using machine learning, natural language processing techniques, and access to outside tools. Their ability to offload repetitive and increasingly complext tasks has made them the hot topic and 2025 being declared The Year of the AI Agent.While the concept of AI agents isnt new dating back to symbolic systems in the 1950s and expert systems in the 1980s recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have revitalized their potential. LLMs excel at mapping complex dynamics, such as interpreting human Read the full blog for free on Medium.Join thousands of data leaders on the AI newsletter. Join over 80,000 subscribers and keep up to date with the latest developments in AI. From research to projects and ideas. If you are building an AI startup, an AI-related product, or a service, we invite you to consider becoming asponsor. Published via Towards AITowards AI - Medium Share this post

Looking for the most recentregular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles.Oh come on, New York Times. Today'sConnections: Sports Editionwas likely tough for most players, but that blue category especially was a huge stumper for me. Read on for hints and answers for today's Connections: Sports Edition puzzle.For now, the game is in beta, which means the Times is testing it out to see if it's popular before adding it to the site's Games app. You can play it daily for now for free and then we'll have to see if it sticks around.Read more: NYT Has a Connections Game for Sports Fans. I Tried ItHints for today's Connections: Sports Edition groupsHere are four hints for the groupings in today's Connections: Sports Edition puzzle, ranked from the easiest yellow group to the tough (and sometimes bizarre) purple group.Yellow group hint: Ouch!Green group hint: State below Washington.Blue group hint: First-year success.Purple group hint:Same first name.Answers for today's Connections: Sports Edition groupsYellow group: Soreness.Green group: An Oregon athlete.Blue group: Rookie QBs to reach conference championship.Purple group:Jalen ____.Read more: Wordle Cheat Sheet: Here Are the Most Popular Letters Used in English WordsWhat are today's Connections: Sports Edition answers? The completed NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle for Saturday, Jan. 25, 2025. NYT/Screenshot by CNETThe yellow words in today's ConnectionsThe theme is soreness. The four answers are ache, discomfort, pain and sting.The green words in today's ConnectionsThe theme is an Oregon athlete. The four answers are Beaver, Thorn, Timber and Trail Blazer.The blue words in today's ConnectionsThe theme is rookie QBs to reach conference championship. The four answers are Daniels, Flacco, Purdy and Sanchez.The purple words in today's ConnectionsThe theme is Jalen ____. The four answers are Brunson, Hurts, Ramsey and Rose.

Cash App users who were victims of fraud may have money coming their way, after the app's parent company was fined $175 million for "weak" security measures and poor customer service.The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau accused Cash App's parent company, Block, Inc., of unfair customer practices and ordered the company to pay fines for violations that included:Not providing effective customer service for Cash App customers to solve problems in a timely manner. The bureau's report stated that fake customer service lines stole customers' information.Not taking appropriate action to "detect, limit and address fraud" on Cash App.Using the chargeback process instead of investigating and solving unauthorized transaction disputes in a timely manner.Misrepresenting its ability to protect customers from unauthorized transfers and its customer support phone line.The CFPB ordered Block to update its business practices to comply with the law, pay between $75 and $120 million to users whose unauthorized transfers weren't investigated and send a $55 million penalty to the CFPB's victim relief fund.Block agreed to the settlement but disagreed with the CFPB's characterizations of the company's actions. "We made the decision to settle this matter in the interest of putting it behind us and focusing on what's best for our customers and our business," the company said in anonline statement. "The historical issues raised in this agreement do not reflect the Cash App experience today."Cash App now has multiple ways to receive live support and has an online dispute tool, the statement said. The payment app also offers a payment warning tool that can help alert you if your transaction may be part of a scam.If you reported an unauthorized transaction onCash Appand didn't receive customer support, you may be entitled to a refund. Here's what you need to know.How to get your refund from Cash AppIf you believe you were impacted by Cash App's violations, there's no action you need to take to request a refund. Inmost cases, companies pay the CFPB, and then the federal agency or a payment administrator distributes the refunds to impacted parties. Specifics on how much money impacted users can expect from Cash App or the timing of the refunds are still unclear.For now, you can watch your email and physical mail for further information. You can also check your bank account for a refund from the settlement. We'll keep you updated as we learn more.If you have additional questions, you can contact Cash App's customer support line at 1-800-969-1940. More personal finance news

TAMPA, FLORIDA - DECEMBER 15: Tyron Woodley works out during a media workout at the Seminole Hard ... [+] Rock Tampa pool prior to her December 18th fight against Jake Paul on December 15, 2021 in Tampa, Florida. (Photo by Julio Aguilar/Getty Images)Getty ImagesThe inaugural Global Fight League draft took place virtually on Friday, January 24. The draft saw dozens of UFC, Bellator, and Professional Fighters League veterans selected to the six MMA teams.The fights begin in April, and the season runs for six months with a monthly event through the playoffs and finals. There were a total of 120 draft picks. The teams are London, So Paulo, New York, Dubai, Los Angeles, and Miami.Dubai selected Tyron Woodley as the No. 1 overall selection. The draft was conducted in a serpentine format, with many of the fighters landing in regions close to where they live or train.Here is a look at all of the draft picks.Global Fight League Draft ResultsLondonChiara Penco - Womens AtomweightKelly Staddon - Womens AtomweightJosefine Knutsson - Womens StrawweightKarolina Owczarz - Womens StrawweightJulia Budd - Womens BantamweightPannie Kianzad - Womens BantamweightCameron Else - Mens BantamweightJosh Hill - Mens BantamweightBrett Johns - FeatherweightMike Grundy - FeatherweightBenson Henderson - LightweightTim Wilde - LightweightDanny Roberts - WelterweightNorman Parke - WelterweightGegard Mousasi - MiddleweightMariusz Ksiazkiewicz - MiddleweightAlexander Gustafsson - Light HeavyweightIlir Latifi - Light HeavyweightStuart Austin - HeavyweightTanner Boser - Light HeavyweightLos AngelesMORE FOR YOUCory McKenna - Womens AtomweightJessica Penne - Womens AtomweightIlimia-Lei MacFarlane - Womens AtomweightCynthia Calvillo - Womens StrawweightAspen Ladd - Womens BantamweightLeslie Smith - Womens BantamweightRay Borg - Mens BantamweightUrijah Faber - Mens BantamweightChad Mendes - FeatherweightTyler Diamond - FeatherweightSage Northcutt - LightweightTony Ferguson - LightweightLorenz Larkin - WelterweightLouis Glismann - WelterweightGrant Neal - MiddleweightUriah Hall - MiddleweightDa Woon Jung - Light HeavyweightRashad Evans - Light HeavyweightFrank Mir - HeavyweightAndrei Arlovski - HeavyweightDubaiAnastasia Nikolakakos - Womens AtomweightJessica Aguilar - Womens AtomweightFaine Mesquita - Womens StrawweightRandi Field - Womens StrawweightAlex Conners - Womens BantamweightArlene Blencowe - Womens BantamweightFarboo Iran Nezhad - Mens BantamweightTimur Valiev - Mens BantamweightAoilet Nurmatov - FeatherweightKhumoyun Tukhtamurodov - FeatherweightDamir Ismagulov - LightweightTofiq Musayev - LightweightAbubakar Nurmagomedov - WelterweightTyron Woodley - WelterweightDerek Brunson - MiddleweightLuke Rockhold - MiddleweightOmari Akhmedov - Light HeavyweightRonny Markes - Light HeavyweightAli Isaev - HeavyweightTodd Duffee - HeavyweightMiamiKayla Hracho - Womens AtomweightNatasha Kuziutina - Womens AtomweightHannah Goldy - Womens StrawweightPaige VanZant - Womens StrawweightCat Zingano - Womens BantamweightMariya Agapova - Womens BantamweightEric Shelton - Mens BantamweightMarlon Moraes - Mens BantamweightAndre Harrison - FeatherweightCharles Rosa - FeatherweightAnthony Pettis - LightweightJeremy Stephens - LightweightDilano Taylor - WelterweightGleison Tibau - WelterweightHector Lombard - MiddleweightYoel Romero - MiddleweightPhilipe Lins - Light HeavyweightThiago Santos - Light HeavyweightRobelis Despaigne - HeavyweightJunior dos Santos - HeavyweightSao PauloJoice Mara - Womens AtomweightPamela Mara - Womens AtomweightCamila Reynoso - Womens AtomweightViviane Pereira - Womens StrawweightAlejandra Lara - Womens BantamweightPaula Bittencourt - Womens BantamweightRaphael Assuncao - Mens BantamweightRenan Barao - Mens BantamweightJulio Arce - FeatherweightMaike Linhares - FeatherweightPatricky Pitbull - LightweightLucas Martins - LightweightAlex Oliveira - WelterweightCarlos Petruzzella - WelterweightAlan Patrick - MiddleweightDouglas Lima - MiddleweightAntonio Carlos Jr. - Light HeavyweightMaurico Rua - Light HeavyweightBruno Cappelozza - HeavyweightFabricio Werdum - HeavyweightNew YorkBi Nguyen - Womens AtomweightMarisa Messer-Belenchia - Womens AtomweightMelissa Amaya - Womens StrawweightMiao Ding - Womens StrawweightHolly Holm - Womens BantamweightLiana Jojua - Womens BantamweightJimmie Rivera - Mens BantamweightZviad Lazishvili - Mens BantamweightLance Palmer - FeatherweightKai Kamaka III - FeatherweightSidney Outlaw - LightweightKevin Lee - LightweightNeiman Gracie - WelterweightDillon Danis - WelterweightPhillip Hawes - MiddleweightChris Weidman - MiddleweightDevin Clark - Light HeavyweightOvince Saint Preux - Light HeavyweightAlan Belcher - HeavyweightAleksei Oleynik - HeavyweightThe draft show wasnt horrible though there were some bumps (leaks and misspellings) as well as some awkward commentary from UFC legend Mike Goldberg. Still, overall the intrigue likely grew after this stream.There are some names that will draw some interest. Well see if the GFL can continue on and establish some momentum.