Your unique heart rhythm may one day be used to make shopping, office visits, even just a stroll down the street a bit more personal, notes Clay Griffith, a Director of Product Marketing at Cognizant Softvision.

Postings for digitally enabled jobs of the future are recovering from a sharp dip during the pandemic, but they still lag behind postings for conventional jobs as companies desperately try to rebuild their workforces.

Technology has been vital in enabling remote or online learning during the COVID-19 lockdowns and has rapidly accelerated a trend towards hybrid learning that was already in motion pre-pandemic.

Earlier this year, the multibillion-dollar business consulting and IT giant Cognizant joined XPRIZE to launch the Pandemic Response Challenge, a competition to create AI systems that can help societies reopen safely in the wake of COVID-19.

The remote work directives that resulted from the COVID-19 pandemic reveal that virtual work is no longer a utopian ideal, declares Ben Pring, Cognizant’s Chief Futurist. It’s real and here to stay. To assist in the transition, we present recommendations that help everyone succeed in this new normal.

Cognizant has agreed to acquire TQS Integration, an industrial data and intelligence company based in Lismore, Ireland.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution has been a hot topic in manufacturing circles for some time. We’ve explored many of its facets: what the future of work will look like, how we can harness new technologies and why innovative solutions can help companies come out ahead. However, rarely do we consider where this flurry of activity will occur.

Ensuring that young people have the necessary skills to help businesses is crucial. However, those needs are constantly changing as society changes.

To better understand and serve customers, organizations must not only tap more data, and more types of data from more sources; they also need to gather, analyze and act on this data far more quickly than ever before.

According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) employment levels rose by 356,000 between May and June. However, despite the largest increase in jobs since the start of the pandemic, the ONS said that there are still 206,000 fewer workers on the payroll since Covid.