January 11, 2003 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 Human cloning: fact & fallacy The announcement of the first human clone from Clonaid, a US-based company for human cloning, is widely seen as merely a claim yet to be verified, not a scientific truth. One... BYTEBACK Multiple problems When I run the setup of a program such as Microsoft Office XP 2001, MS Office 2000, Norton Antivirus 2002, it is not installed.... The next generation of interactive entertainment In the movie Morpheous, the head of a gang of rebels asks a rather confused Neo “What is real?” Four years down the road, we can now ask ourselves the same... WEBWATCH A website which is all about creating awareness about computers and related stuff. It features “word for the day”, definitions for technical words organized in categories... Record-holder Afsah wins NCR IT excellence award Outstanding individuals and professionals in nine different categories related to information technology were presented gold medals and certificates for their achievements during the year 2001-2002. The ceremony, hosted by Teradata, a... High alert: Yaha worm rises again Block all attachments ending with “.scr”, “.exe” and “.com”, or be prepared to lose precious data stored in your system!... A phone that answers when called Phone systems today commonly include features like caller identification, call waiting and automatic redial. But what is the point of all the bells and whistles if you cannot get to a... New trends in technology: is sky the limit? Semiconductor electronics has been advancing and evolving at an enormous pace. This can be attributed mainly to dramatic reduction of the device dimensions and therefore integration of more and more transistors... A broad transrapid track for China German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has said that the country had clinched a coveted deal with China to extend the world’s first commercial magnetic levitation train after a successful test ride in... TECH UPDATE Microsoft will license the technology behind its digital media streaming software at lower prices and across a wider range of platforms, the world’s largest software maker said on last week.... SCIENCE UPDATE Another human chromosome has been mapped by an international team of scientists. The complete genetic instructions held in chromosome 14 have been published online.... NEWSBITS The West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) has been melting naturally and releasing water to the ocean for the last 10,000 years. Research published in the journal Science suggests that the last Ice Age never really came to end in that part of the world.... Cloning: a psychological perspective Cloning can be easily credited as one of the most controversial topics of modern day science. It even baffles those scientists who actively pursue its research. Unsure of its full implication... COOL GADGETS The Universal Mosaic touch-screen remote is a quick solution for the too-many-remotes problem: The 5.8 cm x 10.2 cm active touch screen area can be used to program to works with devices...

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