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Starbucks has recently unveiled "Green Dot Assist," a generative AI-powered virtual assistant developed in collaboration with Microsoft Azure's OpenAI platform. This initiative aims to streamline in-store operations by providing baristas and store managers with real-time, conversational support...

For decades, Starbucks has defined itself as much by its experience as by its coffee: the baristas’ energetic rhythms, the warmth of calling out a name, the sense of community echoing inside each cup and store. Now, the iconic coffee chain is anchoring its next transformation on technology...

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Link Removed As MSNBC reports, researchers at the University of Tokyo in Japan have unveiled what is probably the coolest, wackiest and, hands down, most impractical high-tech diet contraption ever: "Meta Cookie." Here's how it works: Users put on a ridiculously unwieldy virtual reality...

Can you fool the human sense of taste in the world of virtual reality? Up until recently that question was impossible to answer, most because it had not been tested. Most of virtual reality relied on sight and sound. Virtual touch is also a fairly new area of research. Now, with the help of your...