What to Do in Houston If You’re Here for Business (2026)
Where to eat, stay, work, and eat some more while visiting Space City on business.
62 Last Minute Prime Day Weekend Deals: Up to 45% Off (2026)
Prime Day is officially over, but many of our favorite, hand-picked deals are still available through the weekend.
AI assistant uses smartwatches, speech and text to spot distress early
What if your smartwatch could tell when you were struggling emotionally and offer support before you even thought to ask? That’s the idea behind a new AI-powered system developed by researchers at the University of Ottawa, one that could change how people access mental health care outside a clinical setting.
The AI Agent Tech Stack Explained
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Build interactive PDF text extraction from Amazon S3
Picture this: a compliance officer needs a specific clause during an audit, an attorney needs contract terms while a client waits on the phone, or a finance analyst needs numbers from last quarter’s report before a meeting that starts in 10 minutes. In each case, waiting for a scheduled job to finish is not practical. …
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Securing agentic AI with perimeter guardrails: What’s new in VPC Service Controls
As enterprises scale autonomous AI agents into production, enabling safe innovation requires robust architectural guardrails. AI agents connect across tools and datasets, so it’s essential to establish clear network-level boundaries for comprehensive data protection. To help organizations confidently deploy these workflows, we recommend VPC Service Controls (VPC-SC) to establish an essential network-level, destination-based perimeter. Today …
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The 28 Best Deals Under $100 Before Prime Day Ends
Times are hard in 2026. These Amazon Prime Day deals under $100 on earbuds, Kindles, and other tested products should help make life just a little bit easier.
Shifting data center power to off-peak hours could cut grid costs in the age of AI
The number of U.S. data centers is growing, largely to power artificial intelligence programs. That has led to concern about the environmental consequences of data centers—and their impact on the energy grid itself. What will happen if scores of new data centers come online?
Agentic Workflow vs. Autonomous Agent: What’s the Difference?
In this article, you will learn how to distinguish agentic workflows from autonomous agents by focusing on who owns control flow — a human writing…
Retrofit, don’t rebuild: Agentic overlays for transforming legacy enterprise services
The opinions expressed in this post are the authors’ views and not those of Cisco. Enterprise architectures have long been centered on REST APIs and microservices. These systems are stable, well-tested, and deeply embedded in production environments. They weren’t designed for Agent-to-Agent (A2A) communication, the emerging standard for autonomous agents that collaborate, reason, and coordinate …
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