Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Sci-Tech World.
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BT to light up villages in Pakistan
 People living in rural areas use mostly firewood or dried animal dung as fuel. Almost 70 per cent of the fuel used in the villages is dung and the remaining is...
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Don’t let computing be a pain
 Computers have now become an integral part of our life. Though this vital tool has made life easier, it can also be a strain on the body and can be the...
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BYTEBACK
 Ziauddin Ursani, in “Byteback” (Dawn Sciencedotcom: Aug 31), says I had wrongly stated that civil engineering is an offshoot of mechanical engineering....
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Increase your productivity with Outlook
 Microsoft Outlook is more than an e-mail program — it can also be a time-saving tool to organize your information and schedule, and ultimately increase your productivity. Here are some useful...
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WEBWATCH
 Ever wondered what it’d be like to be behind the controls of a floating aircraft like Luke Skywalker’s landspeeder...
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Dummies’ guide to buying a laptop
 So you are looking to buy a laptop, but don’t know where or how to buy from. Plus, you are not ready to admit your naiveté incase — you know!...
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Science to make you look younger, live longer
 The reality is that every day that passes one gets older. No matter what you do, it’s happening and you can’t stop it. Back home, our parents were healthier and led...
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TECH UPDATE
Intel kicked off a conference for hardware and software engineers on Sept 9 in Silicon Valley at a twice-yearly gathering hosted by the world’s largest chipmaker to spur technology using its microprocessors....
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SCIENCE UPDATE
A prehistoric protein has been recreated in the test tube. It gives an insight into a world 240 million years ago when reptiles ruled the Earth....
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NEWSBITS
Getting a glass of water in the night could soon be far easier for disabled people — a robot could do it for them. A UK company is developing a robotic arm, which fully mimics a human hand....
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Our kids and internet
 The debate over influence of television and later cable and satellites on kids is not over yet, at least in conventional and more conservative societies like ours, and now a new...
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NEW PRODUCTS
 The Olympus DS-3000 is an 85 grams (with two triple-A batteries) digital voice recorder which can store up to 330 minutes of audio files on a 16MB SmartMedia card (included in the package)....
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