Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Sci-Tech World.
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Meet Mr Cyborg
 EVER thought you’d encounter a real life Cyborg? Well, meet Prof Kevin Warwick, the world’s leading authority on Cybernetics. Warwick has long been attributed with terms, such as the “crazed scientist”...
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Junk in your mailbox
 IN the United States, computer user are being inundated with more junk e-mail than ever before, and the offers to lose weight fast, invest in a hot stock and make money...
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The ultimate ‘digitory’
 XORR was in the control panel when CLT_24 entered the room. He saluted Xorr and then added.” Sir we have a problem.” “What kind of problem CLT? Don’t you see I’m...
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WEBWATCH
 STUDYWORKS online provides online resources for helping students to learn, explore, and understand the subjects of math and science in an interactive environment. The site allows you to test your skills online for topics ranging...
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I-TERMS: Terms a Net admin must know
EVEN if you are not a Net administrator, it is good to know these terms: Sequential access: Refers to reading or writing data records in sequential order, that is, one record after the other. To read record 10, for example, you would first need to read records 1 through 9. This differs from random access, in which you can read and write....
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Use of variables in ASP
 IN the previous episodes of this web development series, we had been trying to build concepts about basics elements required for learning ASP. Now that we have covered the elementary part...
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Baluchitherium: ‘the giant of the lost valley’
 HAILED by the French National Museum of Natural History as “the symbol of the entry into the third millennium,” the great event was the discovery, in April 1999, of a complete...
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Chip with mobile appeal
INTEL has produced its first prototypes of the upcoming “Banias” processor, the company’s first chip purely designed for use in mobile PCs. Banias systems, including Intel’s Odem chipset, will come out...
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Experiment confirms Sun theories
 NEUTRINOS — some of nature’s most elusive sub-atomic particles — do change their properties as they travel through space....
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Planets put on rare spectacle
 KARACHI: Look to the west just after sunset over the next few weeks, and you should see a rare astronomical display. All five planets visible with the naked eye are converging...
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HP to build Linux supercomputer
KARACHI: Hewlett-Packard announced a high-profile contract April 16 to build a Linux-powered supercomputer for the US Department of Energy. The $24.5 million supercomputer will be capable of processing 8.3 trillion calculations per second (8.3 teraflops), according to HP.....
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Nokia unveils new security appliances
KARACHI: Nokia, a prominent manufacturer of security appliances, on April 22 introduced new products addressing the security needs of small or home offices and an enterprise/service provider system....
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Community radios help rural masses
 IT’S a case of being all dressed-up and having nowhere to go. Radio-enthusiasts in India, who have been waiting long to get legal permissions to set up community radio stations, have...
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BYTEBACK
 Past issues I NEED Sciencedotcom dated April 27, 2000. Actually I need a article that was published in it, “Wind the fuel of the future”. Can you please help me....
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ITeaser
THINK your IT knowledge is really good? Rack your brains with this I-Teaser and find out for sure: 1. WHOIS an internet utility was originally developed by: a. AT&T. b. IBM....
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NEW PRODUCTS
 All-in-one control device THE Universal Mosaic touch-screen remote is a quick solution for the too-many-remotes problem: The 5.8 cm x 10.2 cm active touch screen area can be used to program to works with devices, such as TV, VCR, satellite, cable, DVD, laser disc, amplifier, tuner, CD...
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