Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Sci-Tech World.
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Time travel: illusion or reality?
 Time and space have fascinated man since the dawn of civilization, and everyone has entertained the possibility of time travel at least once in their lifetime. People have spent aeons trying...
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Confessions of a Net junkie
 Okay, so I don’t know why exactly I’m doing this but since I’ve already begun, I’d rather not stop half-way (or is it one-tenth of the entire way?) and let my...
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Chatting: changing the language
I can remember the first time I used the internet, when I went with a friend to a nearby cyber café to mail an article for Young World. This was four...
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BYTEBACK
 I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow of Astronomy at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Smith College....
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Precaution is the best defence
 You start the day with everything going well for you. The day is bright, your PC is as fit as a fiddle, and you feel light and merry. All of a...
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WEBWATCH
 Described as “a kind of Consumer Reports with an eye to the future,” TechnoCopia is a precise look at the way technology is changing our work and home....
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Sagan on time travel
 Carl Sagan, the astronomer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, and legendary popularizer of science, in an interview discussed arcane aspects of the field — from how you define time to what it might...
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File transfer using browsers
 When I first heard about FTP through browsers, I took it as a joke, because browsers are supposed to browse the sites not publish them, but I had to change my...
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‘Teleportation now a reality’
 In a world breakthrough out of the realms of Star Trek, scientists in Australia have successfully teleported a laser beam of light from one spot to another in a split second...
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TECH UPDATE
Microsoft last week announced that it intends to play a major role in a new organization, the Open Mobile Alliance, which is promoting standard ways for cell phones to exchange data over the air....
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SCIENCE UPDATE
Patients could one day keep a close eye on their condition with a Smartcard that will allow them to perform blood tests at home....
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NEWSBITS
Information technology has transformed a village near India’s high-tech capital of Bangalore, drastically reducing corruption and red-tape, reports BBC....
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IT and the global consciousness
 “Then if you look forward, it turns out that computer power is going to be used for a variety of things. Incremental enhancements and ease of using things, and then occasionally...
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NEW PRODUCTS
 By replacing the usual 3.5cm CCD sensor with a smaller 4cm CCD, Canon has managed to increase the MV500i's magnification to a massive...
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