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Innovative AstroRad Vest Poised to Safeguard Astronauts from Space Radiation

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Wearable technology developed leveraging the ISS National Lab aims to protect astronauts in deep space

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla., Dec. 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — The latest issue of Upward, official magazine of the International Space Station (ISS) National Laboratory, highlights the AstroRad vest—a pioneering wearable technology designed to safeguard astronauts from harmful solar radiation during deep-space missions. Developed through a collaboration between StemRad and Lockheed Martin, the vest has undergone extensive testing through the ISS National Lab, leading to significant enhancements in its design and functionality.

NASA astronaut Kayla Barron, who evaluated the vest on the space station, describes it in Upward as “like a gravity blanket in space,” noting the balance it aims to strike between protection and mobility. She emphasized the importance of wearable, customized solutions for astronauts, calling the vest “an elegant solution to a challenging engineering problem.”

The AstroRad vest employs high-density polymers to selectively shield vital organs most vulnerable to radiation exposure, addressing cancer and radiation sickness risks. Insights from the ISS National Lab-sponsored investigation enabled StemRad and partners to improve the vest’s ergonomics and functionality, advancing efforts toward safer deep-space exploration.

Oren Milstein, CEO at StemRad, highlighted the significance of leveraging the microgravity environment: “It allowed us to test the vest in a real space environment and laid the groundwork for other collaborations and tests, where we could take the concept even further.”

The vest’s development involved extensive collaboration, with engineer Kat Coderre, deputy manager for deep space exploration advanced programs at Lockheed Martin, referring to the process as a “vest saga.” By utilizing the ISS National Lab, the team obtained invaluable feedback for refining the design for long-duration wear during solar particle events.

The vest was also tested during the Artemis I mission, furthering its role in advancing human space exploration. AstroRad represents a critical advancement in astronaut safety, paving the way for deeper space exploration.

To learn more about AstroRad’s development and testing onboard the space station, read the Upward feature “Armor for Astronauts.”

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About the International Space Station (ISS) National Laboratory:
The International Space Station (ISS) is a one-of-a-kind laboratory that enables research and technology development not possible on Earth. As a public service enterprise, the ISS National Laboratory® allows researchers to leverage this multiuser facility to improve quality of life on Earth, mature space-based business models, advance science literacy in the future workforce, and expand a sustainable and scalable market in low Earth orbit. Through this orbiting national laboratory, research resources on the ISS are available to support non-NASA science, technology, and education initiatives from U.S. government agencies, academic institutions, and the private sector. The Center for the Advancement of Science in Space™ (CASIS®) manages the ISS National Lab, under Cooperative Agreement with NASA, facilitating access to its permanent microgravity research environment, a powerful vantage point in low Earth orbit, and the extreme and varied conditions of space. To learn more about the ISS National Lab, visit our website.

As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, CASIS® accepts corporate and individual donations to help advance science in space for the benefit of humanity. For more information, visit our donations page.

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Narrative Unveils LLM Fine-Tuning Platform and Rosetta Stone 2.0, Pioneering a New Era of Data Normalization and Custom Model Training

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NEW YORK, Jan. 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Narrative, the industry’s leading data collaboration and commerce platform, today announced a groundbreaking suite of enhancements aimed at democratizing AI development and data utilization. Chief among these is the introduction of a new Large Language Model (LLM) fine-tuning capability, enabling companies of all sizes to customize their own AI models directly on the Narrative platform with unprecedented ease. Additionally, Narrative is thrilled to introduce Rosetta Stone™ 2.0, the next generation of the company’s acclaimed data normalization solution, engineered using the very fine-tuning tools now available to customers.

Narrative Unveils LLM Fine-Tuning Platform & Rosetta Stone 2.0, Revolutionizing Data Normalization & AI Customization

A Collaborative and Accessible Approach to LLM Fine-Tuning
At the core of Narrative’s approach is a “collaboration-first” philosophy. Users can now access a broad range of datasets—from proprietary and partner sources to publicly available and marketplace content—to train and refine their LLMs. This approach fosters an ecosystem where content creators and publishers can monetize their work directly, while businesses benefit from a richer, more diverse data pool to power increasingly sophisticated AI models. By removing technical barriers and simplifying the model-building process, Narrative empowers everyone from non-technical operators to seasoned data scientists to craft bespoke language models with a simple point-and-click interface.

Rosetta Stone 2.0: Next-Generation Data Normalization
A centerpiece of today’s announcement is Rosetta Stone 2.0, an evolution of Narrative’s pioneering data normalization capability. Leveraging Narrative’s new LLM fine-tuning platform, the updated Rosetta Stone model delivers remarkable performance gains and expanded functionality. It not only standardizes data automatically across disparate sources, ensuring seamless compatibility and readiness for training, but it also can serve as a foundational base model for customers looking to extend its core normalization capabilities into their specific domain. From ensuring coherent data formats to tackling complex, domain-specific semantic challenges, Rosetta Stone 2.0 is a flexible, next-level tool designed to accelerate data-driven innovation.

Key Features and Benefits:

Easy, No-Code Model Fine-Tuning:
Users can skip the complex coding, configuration files, and intricate infrastructure setups. Narrative’s platform translates raw datasets into meaningful training material through an intuitive, point-and-click interface.

Rich Data Ecosystem & Monetization Opportunities:
Through Narrative’s marketplace, publishers, content creators, and data owners can directly profit by offering their datasets for model training. Simultaneously, developers can tap into a vast reservoir of high-quality information to train models that align perfectly with their use cases.

Rosetta Stone 2.0 Engineered with Fine-Tuning:
Built using the same LLM customization features now offered to users, Rosetta Stone 2.0 exemplifies the power and potential of the Narrative platform. Its advanced normalization techniques handle complex and heterogeneous data sets, and it can be adapted into a specialized normalization model for industry- or business-specific contexts.

Bring fine tuning to your data
Narrative fine tuning is available anywhere Narrative is available, including in Narrative’s cloud and in your organization’s Snowflake, Databricks, AWS, Azure, or GCP account.

Customizing Rosetta Stone for Your Data

Narrative now gives you the option to tailor Rosetta Stone’s powerful data normalization capabilities so it fits your organization’s unique data and terminology—no major system overhauls required. This means you get more accurate and consistent results by aligning Rosetta Stone with your own industry language and internal structures.

When you’re ready to deploy Rosetta Stone, you can choose from different model sizes to strike the right balance of speed, detail, and cost. Simply pick the option that best fits your team’s priorities and infrastructure.

“The launch of our LLM fine-tuning platform and Rosetta Stone 2.0 marks a pivotal milestone in our journey to democratize AI development. With these offerings, anyone can create, refine, and extend powerful language models, and content creators can finally realize tangible value for their contributions. This is what the future of data and AI collaboration looks like—accessible, flexible, and mutually beneficial for all stakeholders.” –Nick Jordan, Founder, Narrative

For more information on Narrative’s LLM fine-tuning platform and Rosetta Stone 2.0, or to schedule a live demo, visit narrative.io.

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Fibocom Launches the Fibocom AI Stack to Facilitate On-device AI Deployment with a Fully Manageable Service at CES 2025

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LAS VEGAS, Jan. 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Fibocom (Stock code: 300638), a global leading provider of AIoT solutions and wireless communication modules, announces its brand-new Fibocom AI Stack, an integrated set of hardware, AI tools, AI engines, resourceful AI models, offering a fast-to-deploy solution for industry customers to intelligentize their devices with on-device AI. Laying the focus on device-side AI adoption, Fibocom AI Stack is designed to address the challenges of diverse demands for intelligent transformation across different industries by providing a complete solution to facilitate the deployment of AI models on smart devices.

Key Capabilities

Cross-Platform and Cross-System Flexibility: Leveraging the compatibility with mainstream AI frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, ONNX and MXNet, etc. and the support of multi-tier computing chips and modules, Fibocom AI Stack provides the optimal strategy for device-side AI deployment through the integration of an easy-to-deploy code and accessible AI toolchain for data annotation, model training, fine-tuning, achieving high-accuracy and high-speed inference.Powerful On-device AI Engine: Fibocom AI Stack’s high-performance inference engine ensures efficient operation, enhancing performance while minimizing power consumption. This aspect is crucial for real-world applications where resources are constrained. Additionally, it supports multi-language SDK interfaces, third-party apps as well as hardware accelerator.Simplifying On-device AI Development: Fibocom AI Stack provides an extensive library of AI models (e.g., for audio, CV, LLMs, multimodal LLMs) and provides the value-added model selection and fine-tuning service to help customers to develop industry-oriented models. Therefore, companies of any size can benefit from the manageable service, accelerating on-device AI deployment globally.

The versatility and compatibility of Fibocom AI Stack significantly ease the complexity of on-device AI deployments where many terminal devices are constrained with limited computational power and energy efficiency, making it a master tool for the intelligent transformation in smart retail, autonomous vehicles, smart wearables, robotics. It is worth mentioning that Fibocom AI Stack works across multiple Fibocom AI module and smart module series, supporting the computation power from entry to premium level.

“In the wave of AI-first, we are proudly seeing Fibocom leverages AI innovations and in-depth industry expertise to empower the on-device AI deployment with our game-changer Fibocom AI Stack, enabling businesses to scale smart devices in various industries with high-efficiency, cost-effective approaches,” said Willson Liu, President of Fibocom AI Research Institute. “Looking forward, we are expecting to collaborate with more industry customers to build their smart devices with Fibocom-empowered on-device AI solutions and enable a smart future with AI productivity.”

Explore more about Fibocom AI Stack, welcome to book a meeting with our sales team or visit us at IMC’s booth #10577 in the North hall at CES 2025 from January 7-10.

About Fibocom

Fibocom is a global leading provider of AIoT solutions and wireless communication modules as well as the first wireless communication module provider listed on China A-shares stock market (stock code: 300638). Fibocom offers a one-stop solution for industry customers by integrating wireless communication modules and IoT solutions. With over two decades of engagement in M2M and IoT communication technology and extensive expertise, we are capable of bringing reliable, convenient, secure and intelligent connectivity service to every industry, enriching smart life with a perfect wireless experience. Fibocom’s product portfolio ranges from cellular modules (5G/4G/3G/2G/LPWA), automotive-grade modules, AI modules, android-smart modules, GNSS modules and antenna service. Together, we aim to empower digital transformation across industries such as ACPC (Always Connected PC), mobile broadband, smart retail, C-V2X, robotics, smart energy, IIoT, smart cities, smart agriculture, smart home, telemedicine, etc.

Find out the latest news at www.fibocom.com, and follow us on LinkedIn /X /Facebook /Youtube.

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Manifest Achieves FedRAMP® High Authorization Through Palantir Technologies

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WESTPORT, Conn., Jan. 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Manifest, the industry leading software bill of materials (SBOM) and artificial intelligence bill of materials (AIBOM) management platform, today announced that it has achieved FedRAMP® High authorization through Palantir Technologies’ FedStart program. Manifest can deliver its industry-leading SBOM and AIBOM management platform to government customers in a FedRAMP®-authorized environment.

FedRAMP® High Authorization solidifies Manifest’s status as a trusted data platform to deliver SBOM and AIBOM management

FedRAMP® High authorization provides assurance that Manifest can handle the most sensitive data across the public sector including law enforcement data, healthcare data, or other mission-critical data.

“The ability to manage SBOM and AIBOM data in Manifest brings security and visibility into mission critical applications and models,” said Marc Frankel, CEO, Manifest. “With FedRAMP® High authorization, Manifest will continue to work closely with the Federal Government and its partners to bring SBOM and AIBOM management into their missions. We are honored to support our government customers and to help them secure software and AI supply chains.”

Manifest partnered with Palantir to achieve FedRAMP® High authorization. “We established Palantir FedStart with the aim of empowering companies to deliver solutions to the federal government quickly,” said Ali Monfre, Palantir’s FedStart Program Lead. “It is extremely exciting to see Manifest achieve this milestone through our program, an affirmation of our mutual ongoing commitment to ensuring secure and expedited access to cutting-edge technology for the government users who need it.”

Manifest launched in December 2021 in the wake of the catastrophic Log4shell vulnerability. The world’s most important industries – financial services, healthcare, defense, manufacturing – were left without insight into the open-source and third-party software components in the software they had procured, and Manifest has set out to deliver quantified software supply chain risk to critical infrastructure categories and governments.

Manifest has a proven history of success with various federal agencies, including at the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). With the successful achievement of FedRAMP® High authorization, Manifest is well-positioned to continue redefining the future of software and AI security in the public sector.

For more information on the Manifest FedRAMP® High authorization, click here. Manifest will host a webinar on February 4, 2025 to discuss delivering software supply chain security to Government. Click here to register.

For more information on Manifest and its solutions, please visit https://www.manifestcyber.com.

Media Contact:
Mike McDonel
mike@manifestcyber.com
(443) 537-9123

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