Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Sci-Tech World.
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Can proper use of technology change the face of Pakistan?
 Technology has yielded more wonders in the last 10 years than the last 100 years; some of them expected and some that were not even anticipated. It is true that the...
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BYTEBACK
 Once I mistakenly changed a file’s extension. Now every time I open it, the explorer stops responding. What should I do...
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Sights and sounds of Vice City
 The Grand Theft Auto series has been well known for its excessive violence - killing, stealing and rampaging are its key features. And its fourth installment makes no exception. But other...
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WEBWATCH
 This Mount Wilson Observatory tour walks you through the observatory, right from the front gate, and provides ample links to different aspects of interest....
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Machinima: from games to movies
 Today almost everyone is familiar with two types of movies: the conventional films, involving real world scenes with real actors, and animated movies, including both 2D and 3D animations. Now...
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Enzymes: the fountain of life
Just imagine someone saying to you, “Your body contains millions of tiny building blocks, which continually renew, maintain and save your life. You would drop dead without them. They are fountain...
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Manned vs unmanned travel through space
 The post WW-II development of N-weapons and the consequent need for means of delivery and monitoring systems were the primary motivation behind developments of powerful rockets and communication technology. These two...
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Europe’s first space mission to Mars
 In the nineteenth century, Charles Darwin made his historic journey in HMS Beagle to find the answer to the question about the overwhelming diversity of life on Earth. The journey resulted...
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TECH UPDATE
IBM and German chip maker Infineon Technologies AG on Tuesday said they made an important step toward developing a new kind of memory that could enable computers to boot up instantaneously....
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SCIENCE UPDATE
Liquid water, not anything else, carved the canyons, valleys and outflow plains of Mars, according to the latest research....
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NEWSBITS
The rate at which the Bugbear.b worm is spreading has reached a plateau, but the virus continues to pose a danger....
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NATIONAL SCI-TECH SCENE
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) last week fined Mobilink, a leading cellular company, Rs60 million for consistently maintaining poor quality of service. The company was also directed to compensate its customers within 30 days....
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What is the solution to the water crisis in Pakistan?
 The very survival of Pakistan’s economy, as well as inter-provincial harmony, depends on finding the solution to the problem of water shortage. Perpetual silting of water reservoirs, lakes, canals, rivers and...
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COOL GADGETS
 Matsushita’s new notebook computer “Toughbook CF-18”, enables to flip up its 10.4-inch LCD display over the keyboard to change shape as a tablet PC....
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