Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Sci-Tech World.
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The ‘Multiverse’ mystery
 CAN anyone or anything exist at two places simultaneously? Pure fantasy! A figment of someone’s runaway imagination? No, it’s for real! Simple experiments have proven that a single electron can pass...
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Break free from that e-chain!
 WHILE checking your e-mail, how often you have to bear the sight of your mailbox being flooded with “forwards.” Chances are that it has become a regular sight for you now...
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How to get the best music on the net
 WHEN someone ask you, “heard that great new single?” You want to have it first thing but don’t want to spend money on complete album, on CD or cassette, for just...
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WEBWATCH
 The Brain Explorer has been developed to provide a guide to psychiatric and neurological disorders for anyone that is interested in these topics. BrainExplorer.org displays each component of our ‘3-pound universe as well as illustrating...
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I-TERMS: Terms a Net adminmust know
EVEN if you are not a Net administrator, it is good to know these terms: .DLL: Short for Dynamic Link Library, a library of executable functions or data that can be used by a Windows application. Typically, a DLL provides one or more particular functions and a program accesses the functions by creating either a static or dynamic link...
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Databasing in ASP
 BEFORE practically getting on with databases, there are a few things that are required to be discussed beforehand. To understand the concept of database connectivity easy way, let us take analogy...
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Management of rain water beneficial to sustained agricultural production
THE total area of Pakistan is 79.61 million hectare (mha), out of which about 23mha of land is cultivated and 8.91mha is cultureable waste. About 25 per cent of the cultivated...
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Fastest Pentium 4 rolls out
INTEL has rolled out three new microprocessors, including the speediest Pentium 4 to date, keeping up the speed race against rival Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)....
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Carrots modified to contain hepatitis B vaccine
 GERMAN scientists have grown genetically modified carrots that contain the vaccine against hepatitis B, which they say could dramatically cut the costs of preventing the disease. Development has reached the stage...
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How whales learnt to swim
 THE mighty blue whale owes its swimming ability to an anatomical quirk. Fossils show early whales became agile swimmers in a mere blink of evolution — about 10 million years.....
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Sony loosens leash on ‘Aibo’ robot dog
 WHO says you can’t teach an old robotic dog new tricks? As of next month, Sony Corp. will offer free software kits for its plastic pet dog, called “Aibo,” which will give owners many more training options. Aibo will even be able to meow rather than bark....
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IBM brings grid computing to games
IBM and a West Virginia start-up hope to bring grid computing — a technique touted for harnessing multiple computers into seamless processing grids — to the video game industry....
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What is the future of IT professionals?
 THE graph of the global economy registered a sharp decline in the wake of the 9/11 event. All major business industries were affected adversely, information technology sector being one of them....
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BYTEBACK
 No quick fix! I AGREE with assessment, and conclusions drawn, in the article “Pakistan’s misplaced education priorities” (Dawn Sciencedotcom, May 4) by Dr Riffat Hassan, Dr M. Wasiullah Khan...
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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. Which one of these is a storage device? a. CPU b. Headphones...
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NEW PRODUCTS
 LCD screen video walkman SONY’S GV-D900 video walkman VCR records to DV and MiniDV cassettes with up to 500 lines of horizontal resolution, 3x analog bandwidth, and significatly higher S/N ratio, to provide...
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