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Small Businesses in California Affected by 2021 Oil Spill Face Important Deadline

Small Biz Trends

Director Garfield said of the loans: “Economic Injury Disaster Loans may be used to pay fixed debts, payroll, accounts payable and other bills that cannot be paid because of the disaster’s impact. The damage was likely caused by one or more ship anchors catching on the pipe and dragging it along the sea bed.

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What Is a Digital Twin?

Nvidia

By many accounts, NASA was the first to introduce the notion of the digital twin. NASA had set up simulators of systems on the Apollo 13 spacecraft, which could get updates from the real ship in outer space via telecommunications. It also plans to take into account measurements of the environmental impacts of human activities.

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Majority Report: 2022 Predictions on How AI Will Impact Global Industries

Nvidia

Headlines over the course of the year proved them correct: To save Christmas, retailers Home Depot, Target and Walmart chartered their own cargo ships to deliver goods to their stores around the world. To speed time to market, BMW, Ericsson and other companies began using digital twin technologies to simulate real-world environments.