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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...
Auckland BioSciences expands animal blood operation to Uruguay
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Auckland BioScience's new MonteSera facility in Parque de las Ciencias of Uruguay. Photo: SUPPLIED/Auckland BioSciencesWhile animal blood might make some people squeamish, a New Zealand company putting it "to very good use" in the pharmaceutical industry is now expanding into South America.
Auckland BioSciences manufactures and exports animal-derived serum and plasma from mostly cattle and pig carcasses raised in Aotearoa. It is used in medical and life science research, including in the development of veterinary...
Blue Origin scrubs New Glenn’s second flight due to bad weather
Blue Origin has postponed the second flight of its New Glenn rocket, which was slated to send a pair of NASA spacecraft on the first step of their journey to Mars on Sunday afternoon. The heavy-lift launch vehicle was scheduled to take off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 2:45PM ET., but multiple holds were issued during the under-two-hour launch window due to inclement weather. Blue Origin called off the launch attempt around 4:13PM.
The next launch opportunity is as yet unclear. Blue Origin was previously given a backup opportunity set for Monday afternoon, but the FAA has since issued an emergency order restricting commercial launches for the time being due to the government shutdown. As of November 10, commercial space launches can only take place between 10:00PM and 6:00AM. Blue Origin said...
5 business concepts IT leaders should master
CIOs must master critical business concepts to fulfill their new mandate of being business partners with their leadership peers. Here are the latest business terms and notions impacting IT.CIOs have heard for years that they can no longer be only technology leaders. They must be business executives, too.
CEOs say as much. CIO.com’s 2025 State of the CIO survey found that CEOs expect their top IT execs to help the organization achieve revenue growth objectives, identify data-driven business opportunities, reduce spending, enable new plans for customer acquisition and retention, among other objectives.
If CIOs want to deliver on those CEO expectations, they must not only speak the language of business (as they’re often advised to do) but also understand business fundamentals — those key ideas and theories that have become the bedrock lessons of MBA programs and...
