Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Sci-Tech World.
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‘Does Pakistan really need an S&T policy?’
 My previous article, “What should be the top 10 S&T policy priorities for Pakistan” published in this space (May 24 issue) drew a flurry of email responses reflecting a wide range...
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BYTEBACK
 Mail problemsI AM facing the following problems: 1. I use Outlook Express. How can I block senders? 2. How can I empty deleted items folder? I receive an error that the server can’t understand the request....
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Talking computers: what makes them tick?
 Imagine how easy life would become if you could talk to your computer, and it talked back! Thanks to the latest speech recognition technology soon it won’t be just a dream....
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WEBWATCH
 This site covers the history of the disease, diagnosis, therapies, epilepsy and art, famous epileptics, and recommended books....
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Looking for signs of life in the Cosmos
 Dr Seth Shostak, the chief scientist at SETI@home, sits in his office catching the signals and waiting to hear the signs of intelligent life elsewhere in the cosmos....
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Molecular understanding of cancer in humans
 There are as many as one hundred thousand billion cells in a human body, and billions undergo cell division on any given day. Cells, as individual living units, can be removed...
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Going the optical ethernet way
 Nearly 80 per cent of the traffic on corporate intranets today is based on ethernet technology. The traffic usually starts out on a gigabit LAN and heads for a terabit backbone....
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Annoying ‘spam’ and ‘pop-up’ ads
 I don’t think anybody likes advertisements that spring up on ones computer screen, blocking view of the internet. And, likewise, “spams” — unsolicited messages are not only annoyingbut at times frustrating....
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TECH UPDATE
Microsoft said it inked a deal to acquire the technology of GeCAD Software, an antivirus supplier based in Bucharest, Romania...
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SCIENCE UPDATE
As part of the newly established Project Prometheus, the aerospace company Lockheed Martin has been given a $6m contract for a design study of the proposed Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter (Jimo)....
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NATIONAL SCI-TECH SCENE
The three-day Microsoft Pakistan Developers Conference was held in Karachi June 17-19. Addressing the inaugural session, Federal Minister for IT and Telecommunication Awais Ahmad Khan Leghari said in reference to Microsoft’s contribution, “This is a win-win situation for both Microsoft and Pakistan”....
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Black headed caterpillar threatens date palm
Date palm (Phoenix dactylifera) may have been the first, and to some, the most important of all the trees. Its origin is said to be the countries around the Gulf, Iraq,...
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COOL GADGETS
 Royal Philips Electronics has introduced the Mirror TV, a versatile 76.2cm LCD display integrated into a mirror....
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Are you addicted to ICQ?
You have your uin# memorized. You have a uin# that is 6 digits (the new ones are 8 digits geeze!). You wish you had a uin# with 6 digits ....
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