Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Sci-Tech World.
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Flight to space on a beam of energy
 What’s good in the United States is that there are no barriers in seeking knowledge. One can talk with experts in universities to find out the basics of a subject....
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BYTEBACK
 Insta chat not workingHow can I chat with my friends using Insta connection on their cell phones. When I visit the Insta SMS chat page , it says the program requires Java application....
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50 years after the discovery of DNA
When in 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick sketched the first draft of DNA “The Double Helix”, few would have foreseen the extent to which it would transform our lives in...
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Need to stop misuse of internet
 The use of internet is rapidly growing in all spheres of life due to the enormous amount of information it offers, virtually rebounding answer to every possible query you make. However,...
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WEBWATCH
 Do you where Timbuktu is? Whether you know that it is the name of a city in the African country Mali, or are completely oblivious of its existence, in both cases this is the web site for you....
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The sinking future of banana in Sindh
 Banana is a herbaceous perennial plant with fleshy rhizomatous roots. Its plant produces sucker shoots, which give fruit once and then die. Bananas are cultivated as plantation crop and suckers are...
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Is PC gaming dying?
 In the recent years, with the advent of 3D cards, PC gaming has jumped leaps and bounds both in terms of gameplay and graphics. Thanks to the advancement in hardware and...
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A balanced scorecard for deploying corporate vision
 The balanced scorecard represents a system of strategic management and control, which implements the corporate vision as a springboard from which to derive strategy, ultimately culminating in a system of operational...
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Identifying ‘use cases’ in UML
 Building a desired house requires an architect, a design, and finally the construction phase. Although construction of your house can get underway skipping designing part, but this way, most likely, you...
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TECH UPDATE
Since last Monday Intel Corp resumed shipping its latest Pentium 4 microprocessor after developing a software patch to fix an unidentified glitch that halted shipments for sometime....
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SCIENCE UPDATE
Surgery to remove bands of scar-like tissue inside the abdomen is no better at relieving chronic abdominal pain than surgery to see if these bands of tissue, known as adhesions, are present, according to Dutch physicians....
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NEWSBITS
NASA’s space shuttle manager, Ron Dittemore, who took the public stage in the days after the Feb 1 Columbia disaster, plans to resign this week, media reports said on Sunday....
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Indigenous manufacture of personal computers
 In this age of information technology, the use of computers is the name of the game. Be it education, medicine, business or any activity, computers make the accomplishment of any job...
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COOL GADGETS
 Handout image released by Microsoft on April 17, 2003, showing GWindows, a new development by Microsoft Research, which uses hand gestures to interact with the windows open on the computer....
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