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HCLTech joins Microsoft Discovery Platform to accelerate research innovation
NEW YORK and NOIDA, India – WEBWIRE – Friday, December 26, 2025
HCLTech, a leading global technology company, announced that it has joined the Microsoft Discovery platform, an advanced agentic AI platform designed to accelerate scientific breakthroughs.
As part of this collaboration, HCLTech will participate in deep technical onboarding sessions with Microsofts Discovery team to align platform architecture, partner collaboration models and explore joint go-to-market opportunities. Following onboarding, HCLTech will take part in projects to accelerate solutions in areas such as chemistry and materials science, drug discovery and semiconductor design, leveraging its strong domain expertise across industries.
Through the Discovery initiative, HCLTechjoins a select group of research institutions and tech innovators shaping the next frontier of innovation.
The Microsoft Discovery platform empowers R&D teams to conduct large-scale data processing and simulation, automate workflows and accelerate scientific innovation to...
Browse a 3D map of the world’s 2.75 billion buildings
GlobalBuildingAtlas is based on data collected up to 2019. Credit: Earth System Science Data
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday.Researchers in Germany recently accomplished a truly audacious feat of cartography. Using a diverse array of datasets, a team at the Technical University of Munich released GlobalBuildingAtlas, the first high-resolution mapping model featuring every structure in the world at a given point in time.
However, the open-source project isn’t about bragging rights. With over 2.75 billion buildings detailed in the map, the endeavor will help create accurate analyses of urban structures, volume calculations, and infrastructure planning around the planet.
“3D building information provides a much more accurate picture of urbanization and poverty than traditional 2D maps,” research lead Xiaoxiang Zhu said in a statement. “With 3D models, we see not...
‘My life was carnage’
Intercounty GAA players are six times more likely to develop a gambling addiction than the average person, new research has found.
The findings, published in the Irish Journal of Medical Science, found that 4.8% of respondents could be considered problem gamblers.
By contrast, the prevalence among the general population is 0.8%.
On Newstalk DailyAssociate Professor at the University of Limerick Dr Kieran Murray said there is an increasing awareness of the impact gambling has.
“Gambling now has a DSM code for a medical illness, with widespread harms in terms of mental...
Montreal hosts G7 ministers to talk about artificial intelligence, quantum computing
OTTAWA — Artificial intelligence is likely to take up much of the agenda as industry, digital and technology ministers from the world’s most powerful Western countries meet in Montreal this week.
OTTAWA — Artificial intelligence is likely to take up much of the agenda as industry, digital and technology ministers from the world’s most powerful Western countries meet in Montreal this week.
The two-day event is part of a series of ministerial meetings being held as Canada holds the presidency of the G7 group of nations this year.
Prime Minister Mark Carney hosted the G7 leaders’ summit in June, welcoming leaders from the United States, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom, along with the European Union, to Kananaskis, Alta.
"The decisions that we'll make here together will shape the...
