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SONGMICS HOME Partners with Rise Above Foundation for Second Year of “Start Above” Initiative, Renovating Homes for Young Adults

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2 months ago

November 15, 2024

CONCORD, Mass., Nov. 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — SONGMICS HOME, a globally leading online furniture brand that serves 20 million homes, is partnering with American nonprofit Rise Above Foundation for the second consecutive year as part of the “Start Above” public welfare initiative. SONGMICS HOME’s participation aims to help youth out of foster family build their first dream homes as they begin new chapters in their lives.

Between 2023 and 2024, SONGMICS HOME has worked with the Massachusetts-based Rise Above Foundation, a nonprofit founded in 2009, supporting five young people by renovating their first apartments. SONGMICS HOME provided essential furnishings to help these individuals settle into homes that reflect their personalities and aesthetic preferences, giving them a sense of normalcy in their new spaces. The initiative shows the care of local community organizations for the life enrichment of young people.

SONGMICS HOME’s team collaborates closely with designers, donating furniture and furnishings products tailored to the needs of young people. Staff members clean the apartment, assemble the furniture, and decorate living spaces, ensuring they are comfortable, practical, and stylish. This hands-on approach reflects SONGMICS HOME’s deep commitment to the youth of today, as the company pursues social responsibility to help them transit into a life with more self-esteem in the early stage of their life journey.

“It’s honored to join this meaningful project. With stylish furnishings products, we hope to help create youth’s ideal personalized living spaces that can be called a real home,” said Daisy Wei, senior brand manager of SONGMICS HOME.

Sarah Baldiga, co-founder & executive director of Rise Above Foundation, expressed her pride that the foundation has been able to support young adults when they are moving into their first home, and even though they’ve experienced foster care, this is a chance to set a new chapter in their lives with opportunities to start fresh.

Over the years, SONGMICS HOME has collaborated with a range of global non-profit organizations, including the global tree planting NGO One Tree Planted, France’s leading poverty alleviation organization Emmaüs Défi, Rise Above Foundation, the first animal protection association in France La Société Protectrice des Animaux, and non-profit animal welfare organization Priceless Pets Rescue, focusing on key areas such as sustainability, social care, and animal welfare.

Looking ahead, SONGMICS HOME will continue its mission to “Complete Your Dream Home” by partnering with global organizations to support those in need, especially youth, and create a positive societal impact through addressing pressing issues and promoting giving back.

About SONGMICS HOME

SONGMICS HOME was officially established in 2010. We own 3 major product brands including SONGMICS for home furnishings, VASAGLE for stylish furniture, and Feandrea for pet supplies. With the mission of “Complete Your Dream Home”, we strive to provide global consumers with stylish and valuable furnishing products. Together with an efficient experience, we are enabling everyone to effortlessly create their dream homes.

To date, our products have successfully entered more than 70 countries and regions, including Europe, North and Central America, and Asia, serving over 20 million families worldwide.

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HevenDrones Partners with SMARTSHOOTER for Drone Defense

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10 minutes ago

January 15, 2025

New partnership addresses mission-critical demand for counter-drone technology amid escalating global conflicts

MIAMI, Jan. 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — HevenDrones (Heven), the market leader in hydrogen-powered drones, announced today a partnership with SMARTSHOOTER, a global innovator in fire control systems that significantly increase hit probability against static and moving ground and aerial targets.

The collaboration integrates SMARTSHOOTER’s SMASH Dragon platform with Heven’s H100 and Urban drone platforms, enabling precision targeting and engagement of both ground and aerial threats.

“As drone conflicts escalate, we know that counter-drone technology will prove critical to the evolving needs of the armed forces,” said Bentzion Levinson, CEO of Heven. “By integrating our drones with SMARTSHOOTER’s fire control systems, we aim to address customer demand for the future needs of remotely-controlled warfare.”

SMASH Dragon is an advanced robotic weapon payload that can be mounted on various drones and unmanned aerial platforms. Leveraging SMARTSHOOTER’s SMASH proprietary fire control and target acquisition algorithms, along with ballistic-calculated shot release, the system directs the weapon and accurately times the shot to achieve a precise hit. The system is uniquely designed to lock, track, and engage unknown targets in unpredictable environments, whether static or dynamic, day or night, unaffected by target movements or human errors such as fatigue and stress.

Staying at the forefront of military technology innovation, SMASH’s proven track record includes recent successful deployments and significant contracts to supply the SMASH 3000 system to NATO Countries for counter-drone operations and equipping the British Army with SMASH systems for counter-unmanned aerial system (C-UAS) capabilities.

About HevenDrones

HevenDrones was founded in 2019 with a clear vision: To unlock the immense potential of the drone economy. Heven’s hydrogen-powered, runway-independent drones are designed with endurance and adaptability in mind. Built for the most complex missions, Heven’s drones operate anywhere—efficiently, quietly, and reliably— providing the warfighter with the technology to get the job done.

About SMARTSHOOTER

Founded in 2011, SMARTSHOOTER is an Israeli-based company that has developed world-leading fire control systems to enhance the accuracy and effectiveness of small arms. Their SMASH product line, which includes the SMASH Dragon, utilizes artificial intelligence, computer vision, and advanced algorithms to enable precise targeting of both ground and aerial threats, including drones. Headquartered in Yagur, Israel, SMARTSHOOTER also operates subsidiaries in the U.S. (Maryland), Europe (Germany), and Australia, serving a diverse array of global clients such as the Israel Defense Forces, U.S. Army, British Army, and other NATO member forces.

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HevenDrones Partners with SMARTSHOOTER for Drone Defense

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10 minutes ago

January 15, 2025

New partnership addresses mission-critical demand for counter-drone technology amid escalating global conflicts

The collaboration integrates SMARTSHOOTER’s SMASH Dragon platform with Heven’s H100 and Urban drone platforms, enabling precision targeting and engagement of both ground and aerial threats.

About HevenDrones

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Extinguishing Wildfires with Light at Meta Photonix

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January 15, 2025

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — MetaPhotonix Inc. (MPI), a Silicon Valley startup, is developing a revolutionary method to extinguish large-scale wildfires using nothing but light – eliminating water! The innovative technology also aims to significantly reduce the need for aircraft, and firefighters, enabling fires to be extinguished by AI remotely at the speed of light.

In 2024, MPI achieved a small yet groundbreaking milestone, by remotely extinguishing a tiny flame, equivalent to the size of a candle, using only light. While small in scale compared to actual wildfires, this experiment serves as a vital proof-of-concept, paving the way for a future where wildfires can be managed quickly and cost-effectively.

“It’s like the first transistor—early stage, but with transformative potential,” said CEO, Dr. Leo DiDomenico, a former NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientist.

MPI’s technology, known as photopyrokinesis, leverages “structured light” from lasers and millimeter-wave sources. These initially low-intensity beams traverse the atmosphere where they would get focused to high-intensity at the disaster area to suppress wildfires without water, chemicals, or close-range human intervention.

This innovation could save the U.S. up to $1 trillion annually in wildfire-related costs, an amount rivaling the nation’s military budget, while addressing up to 20% of global CO₂ emissions.

Using precise light beams, MPI’s technology can potentially even target fires near buildings, offering a critical tool for protecting lives and property. Therefore, this approach is a potential game-changer for the insurance industry, allowing them to keep insuring homes, by reducing claims from wildfires. Each community might someday have its own quick-acting AI fire sentry protecting lives and homes – making fire insurance viable again.

Photopyrokinesis works by directing beams of structured light to fire zones to manipulate the electronic structure of the atmosphere and create localized shockwaves that deny oxygen to the fire. This process provides millions of tiny, controlled explosions each second, extinguishing flames rapidly and efficiently. It is like using dynamite to put out an oil well fire, but much more controlled and targeted.

The structured light’s unique properties allow it to even propagate on curved trajectories, like water from a hose, enabling precise targeting of the fire even in extreme wind conditions like Santa Ana winds.

Founded in 2022 by Dr. DiDomenico, MetaPhotonix Inc. is advancing in the XPRIZE Wildfire competition, but needs visionary investors to help scale this technology and protect lives, ecosystems, and economies from the devastating effects of wildfires.

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