Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Sci-Tech World.
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Internet security: a victim of our double standards?
 You always lock your closet, home and car for their security. But are you as much concerned when it comes to security of your computer — offline and online? If you...
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BYTEBACK
 Harnessing Energy
I am writing with reference to the article “Harnessing tidal energy for power generation” by Shahid Ikramullah Butt which appeared in Feb 3 issue....
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Track and trounce’em all
 Perhaps you are yet another man on the mission to rid your computer of all the lethal viruses and worms, and purge your PC of the Trojans. This may sound like...
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WEBWATCH
 This site of NASA, in simple language for kids, explains the phenomenon behind weather changes and how these affect the Earth....
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Salimuzzaman Siddiqui: pioneer of scientific research in Pakistan
 After Pakistan had emerged on the world map, its first prime minister, Mr Liaquat Ali Khan, began to look for the right person to lead scientific and industrial progress in the...
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Technology to fight terror?
 The US president George W Bush and his advisers have vowed to fight terrorism with terrorism by wreaking death and destruction on the countries which (in their opinion if not actually)...
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Government takes Open Source initiative
 Most of us love to entertain the idea of a proverbial free lunch. One such opportunity has been around for quite a while but not many people have been eager to...
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Bots that make you go ‘Wow’!
 Humanoid robots, some of which can even walk on two legs, dominate the world’s largest robot exhibition, held this weekend in Yokohama, southwest of Tokyo....
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TECH UPDATE
oftware giant Microsoft has said it is taking aim at privately held Google, the web-search company that’s so popular its name is used as a verb....
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SCIENCE UPDATE
The photographs of very distant stars and galaxies were analyzed to test a fundamental aspect of quantum theory, which is a collection of widely held ideas about physics at the invisible level of atoms...
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NEWSBITS
The human body is one of the ultimate examples of a self-assembly machine, with every part a complex arrangement of intricately folded proteins....
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Selling Pakistan offshore
What ever is happening in the world, Pakistan’s IT industry is still at the tail end, yet to be tested in global market. Pakistan is late by just about a decade....
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COOL GADGETS
 The world’s smallest flash memory cards by Hitachi. “Reduced sized MultiMedia Card”, measuring 18 x 24 x 1.4mm and almost half the size of the current MultiMedia Card...
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How things & minds have changed
“This ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.” — Western Union internal memo, 1876....
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