Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Sci-Tech World.
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Assisting the physically challenged with computers
 IN this is age of eat computers, sleep computers and dream computers, it is not surprising to find people from various walks of life benefitting from computers in innumerable ways. However,...
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A comparative brain study: man vs woman
 HUMAN brains vary with gender which is why men and women’s behaviour, relationships, attitudes, and responses to similar events are different.In ancient times, both sexes had a very defined role...
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Managing colours, expertly
IF you’re a professional photographer, here’s the client phone call you don’t want to get: “We just got the catalogue proofs, and we’ve got problems.” You can guess what comes next; the colours of the client’s products don’t look right. If you had shot the job on film, you could fall back on the colour in the transparency, but a digital picture is just numbers on a hard...
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Soul Reaver: satisfy your soul
 THE second instalment in the famous Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver series is here, and it looks better than ever. Crystal Dynamics returns with an impressively detailed new world to explore...
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WEBWATCH
 This Uppsala University website allows you to download the textbook on “Electromagnetic Field Theory.” It is a free textbook which is used in many American and European universities. It deals with the subject of Electrodynamics in great detail....
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I-TERMS: Terms for computer junkies
PUMP up your computer-related vocabulary! Load your brains with these frequenty used i-terms. Broadcast storm: A state in which a message that has been broadcast across a network results in even more responses, and each response results in still more responses in a snowball effect.....
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Computers give hope to speech disorder sufferers
ABOUT 250,000 people in the United Kingdom suffer from the distressing speech disorder of dysarthria, in which the weakening of the muscles used in talking renders speech largely or completely unintelligible....
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Who rules, Java or C#?
 IF you are like me, that is, a young, ambitious, and a hardworking computer programmer, with an indestructible desire to become a successful programmer, the question headlined above or something akin...
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Tablet PC makers embrace a dying art: writing
 FOR Steven Storch, a New York lawyer, the process was gradual but the realization sudden: his handwriting had devolved into an illegible scrawl of hurried, inky scribbles....
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Microsoft to reveal more Windows code
MICROSOFT will reveal hundreds of pieces of proprietary computer code from its monopoly Windows operating system in the next several weeks to comply with an antitrust settlement it signed with the US Justice Department last year, the company said....
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SCIENCE UPDATE: Scientists discover ‘crime gene’
 THE chances of anti-social behaviour among boys who are maltreated as they grow up may be determined by their genetic make-up, research suggests....
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Artifical intelligence in human life
 THE IT revolution has a compelling impact on human life but has it occurred to you what would happen once it’s over? In a world where only the fittest can survive,...
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Cornell, Dell, Intel, Microsoft in Pact
CORNELL University’s research center for advanced computing said on Aug 5 it will get $60 million to develop supercomputers using technology from Dell Computer, Inteland Microsoft....
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BYTEBACK
 Strange noisesMY machine has developed a weird problem. Some of the files in C: drive have automatically changed to some strange letters and also can’t be opened as there...
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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. In Java, the default alignment of buttons in Flow Layout is: a. Right...
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NEW PRODUCTS
 Portable multimedia projectorc PHILIPS designed the cBright series to accommodate current business needs. Recognizing that the only sound heard in a meeting should be that of the presenter...
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