AOL

Starbucks Introduces New Tiered Rewards Program with Secret Menu Drinks for Each Level

Starbucks is changing up its rewards program. The coffee chain introduced a new tiered structure on Tuesday, March 10, with Green, Gold and Reserve levels. Starbucks Rewards members can find out their ...
IEEE

Elysian: Building Emotionally Responsive Non-Playable Characters using Integration of FSM and Generative AI for Real-Time Dialogues in Visual Games

Abstract: Elysian is a modular architecture designed to generate emotionally expressive and contextually coherent dialogue for non-playable characters (NPCs) in interactive games. As the first ...
IEEE

Polarimetric Image Classification using Texture Features based on the Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrix and Local Binary Patterns

Abstract: The paper assesses the use of two of the most common texture information extraction techniques for the classification of polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (PolSAR) images and proposes a ...
Mongabay

Indonesia farmers count the costs as rains wash out Java durian harvest

In a quiet village in central Java, farmers report that their durian fruit trees have failed to bear fruit amid local anxieties over climate change and other environmental shifts. Every year farmers ...