The cloud may be a dominant presence across most sectors and businesses, manufacturing has been more hesitant.

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.