August 24, 2002 Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Sci-Tech World. This page is updated every Saturday. For current issue Click here Choosing a career in science and technology TECHNOLOGY is fascinating. Innovative high-tech gadgets, exploration of new horizons in space travel, cloning living organisms, ever new inventions . . . all of them cast a deep impression on the... Is there an ultimate nature of physical reality? MAN’S unending drive to overcome his curiosity, and seek rationality, has been a part of his nature from the very beginning. The concepts of simplicity and symmetry have always been... VDTs can be hazardous MANY of the youth who work on computers for a long time ignore the warnings that sitting in front of computers for too long is hazardous. There are two sets of opinions on this point. The “believers” say the radiation emitted by the VDTs are very harmful for the human body and can cause serious damage to various organs, the “non-believers” refute this claim..... Witchcraft: the reign of chaos AFTER a long period of waiting, game changes, and hype, Warcraft III is available in its final form. The game features four distinct playable races: “The Human Alliance”, “The Orcish Horde”, “The Undead Scourge”, and “The Night Elf Sentinels.... WEBWATCH This website details the life and work of Nikola Tesla. Tesla is responsible for many of the things we consider normal today, from the invention of Alternating Current motor and the use of AC current in the power grids... I-TERMS: Terms for computer junkies PUMP up your computer-related vocabulary! Load your brains with these frequenty used i-terms. Computational linguistics: This is another name for Natural Language Processing (NLP). It is a branch of artificial intelligence that deals with analyzing, understanding and generating the languages that.... Is the fight futile? FOR the second year running, software piracy the world over increased. So said the Seventh Annual Business Software Alliance Global Software Piracy Study. A regular indicator of global trends in software piracy and the fight against it, the report also declared that it was the first time in.... What’s all the MUMring about? FINALLY, a much awaited urdu version of instant messenger, “Mera Urdu Messenger” (or MUM) has hit the shelves of software market. Launched by a local software group — etaleem.com — the... Programming and hacking competition EARLY this month an extremely successful ITCN Asia Philips Proquest 2002 even, the first All-Pakistan Quiz, Programming and Legitimate Hacking competition was held. It was arranged by the Association for Computing... Intel unveils advance chipmaking process INTEL, Aug 15, unveiled several technology breakthroughs that the company has integrated into its new 90-nanometer (nm) process, the most advanced semiconductor manufacturing process in the industry. This new 90 nm (a nanometer is one-billionth of a meter) process combines higher-performance, lower-power transistors.... First language gene discovered SCIENTISTS think they have found the first of many genes that gave humans speech. Without it, language and human culture may never have developed. Key changes to a gene in the last 200,000 years of human evolution appear to be the driving force..... Cows born with human DNA CLONED calves that produce human antibodies in their blood have been born in the United States. The four cows have extra DNA which contains the genes for the part of the human immune system that makes disease-fighting antibodies..... New view of Moon THIS may be the sharpest image of the Moon ever taken from the ground. It shows the edge of the 56 km-wide crater Taruntius, named after the Roman philosopher. The site is about 700 km away from where..... Microchips, vehicle parts out of chicken feathers! LAST month, a chemical engineer, Richard Wool, from the University of Delaware filed a patent that described a new generation of microchips. The patent proposes to replace silicon — which has... BYTEBACK Mischievous Messenger I AM having a problem with my Yahoo Messenger. Although the e-mail is working just fine, I am unable to log onto Yahoo Messenger. Would you please tell me what is the problem... Computing power aids alien hunters OUR chances of getting in touch with ET are increasing due to the rapid advances in computer technology, say alien hunters.... ITeaser THINK your IT knowledge is really good? Rack your brains with this I-Teaser and find out for sure: 1. JVM stands for: a. Just Virtual Media... NEW PRODUCTS THE Iomega HDD portable hard drive is 30GB complete solution for security, recovery and data storage that can transfer data via both USB 2.0 and IEEE 1394. This 2.5 inch unit comes with a USB 2.0 or an IEEE 1394...

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