Billions of pounds of polyvinyl chloride, or PVC, is left to languish in landfills every year. A startup headed by a McMaster researcher and graduate is aiming to change that.
A faulty update from cybersecurity company CrowdStrike that caused disruptions to systems around the world is prompting questions about competition and the resiliency of our digital ecosystems.
Using ‘digital twins’ technology, they created an evolving virtual model of Calgary based on real data, which accurately predicted the catastrophic 2013 flood, allowing them to suggest ways the city could have mitigated its impact.