Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Sci-Tech World.
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Virtual reality: hope for the disabled
 We are on the threshold of the age of magic, which may possibly offer astonishing potentials for the humanity. The technology is having its impact felt on our day-to-day life. Computer...
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Bird’s-eye view of VPN
 Virtual Private Networks or VPNs utilize public networks to carry out private communications safely and inexpensively. That’s why, recently, these networks have attracted attention of many organizations seeking to expand their...
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BYTEBACK
 System errorsI have very serious problem in my computer. When I install an operating system such as Windows Me (or 98), the system displays strange errors...
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Designing web page with Visual Basic scripting
Surfing websites, downloading pictures, playing games and sending e-mails have become much needed activities for youth today. Colourful and interactive web pages not only look pleasant to surfers’ eyes but also...
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WEBWATCH
 Thanks to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, you can travel through thousands of years of art online....
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Full grown plants from tiny bits of leaves
 Tissue culture, in simple terms, is the science of growing plant cells, tissues or organs isolated from the mother plant, on artificial media....
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What is ‘totipotency’?
It is possible to raise whole plants from cuttings or even from a few cells. Thus, it is sometimes possible to raise a whole plant from a root (or shoot) cutting...
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TECH UPDATE
The first product changes dictated by a proposed anti-trust settlement with Microsoft will appear next week in a software patch for Windows XP, the company said....
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SCIENCE UPDATE
Ice reservoirs found on Mars Water-ice has been found in vast quantities just below the surface across great swathes of the planet Mars....
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NEWSBITS
 High-flying, unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) have helped soldiers spot and fight terrorists in Afghanistan’s hilly terrain....
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New irrigation technology holds big promise
Most of the land area of Pakistan is classified as arid to semi-arid because rainfall is not sufficient to grow agricultural crops, forest and fruit plants and pastures....
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NEW PRODUCTS
 Measuring 5.6cm x 3.9cm x 1.4cm, L'Espion digital dream is a digital camera about the same size as a box of matches with filming capabilities ...
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