Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Sci-Tech World.
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Mission to Europa: the search for moving water
 IT HAS a surface covered with frozen water, approximately five kilometre thick. However, the brownish lines present on the surface indicate cracked ice and possibility of liquid water underneath the...
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Turn your hard disk into a digital library
World Wide Web has revolutionized the tradition of entertainment, business, communications as well as learning. For instance, there are more than a hundred thousand dedicated websites on health and medicine...
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A guide to achieving the undocumented
Msn has become the prime mode of communication for all the net savvy younger folks out there. Here are a bunch of useful tips for MSN addicts....
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Webwatch
 This site allows you to enjoy hundreds of accents at one time. From Afrikaans to Zulu, the native speakers come from all four corners of the world and their accents of English are examined by making them read the same paragraph....
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Terms for computer junkies
PUMP up your computer-related vocabulary! Load your brains with these frequenty used i-terms. Compression artifact: It is the fuzz or distortion in a compressed image or sequence of video images. When a photo is compressed into a JPEG format, some data is lost, which is why this type....
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Fast TCP breaks speed records
 A TEAM of computer scientists at the California institute of technology (Caltech) has developed a new data transfer protocol for the internet. This protocol, is aptly named FAST TCP. This fast...
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The evolution of digital markets
 BUYING has never been a problem since the commerce has gone electronic. The advance rapid developments occuring on the e-commerce scene has resulted in making online shopping as one of...
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Enter the world of processors
 THE brain of any computer is a tiny silicon wafer called the microprocessor popularly known as the CPU. It determines, at least in part, which operating systems could be used, which...
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ERP promises better solutions
 IN THIS interview, Samina Rizwan, Country Manager, Oracle Corporation, Pakistan, reveals how Oracle’s enterprise resource planning offers solution for a varity of industries....
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Group claims Linux advance on Xbox
A GROUP of Xbox security researchers say they have found a way to run Linux on the Xbox game console without a so-called mod chip and will go public with the technique if Microsoft won’t talk to them about releasing an official Linux boot loader....
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Solar system ‘twin’ discovered
 ASTRONOMERS have found a planetary system similar to ours, a Jupiter-like world circling a Sun-like star in roughly the same orbit that Jupiter follows our Sun. Of the 100 or...
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US plans hypersonic bomber
THE United States is planning to build an unmanned hypersonic aircraft capable of striking any target in the world within two hours. The initial description of the concept, called the “reusable hypersonic cruise vehicle” (HCV), has recently been placed on the...
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ZU set to open e-library
THE Bahauddin Zakariya University is set to launch in July a digital library established with a seed capital of Rs4.5 million, according to Vice-Chancellor Dr Ghulam Mustafa Chaudhry. “The university is perhaps the first among the public sector universities in the country to have allocated such...
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Water hyacinth: a floating threat to health and sewerage
 WATER-hyacinth, (Eichhornia speciosa Kunth), a free-floating perennial plant with blue-green leaves, thick stalks and blue-lavender flowers, is considered as one of the most productive aquatic herb. This aquatic weed habitats over...
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Byteback
 MIRC channel host How can I become the host of a channel? Secondly, if the size of my Hotmail account reaches a critical size, will my exisiting mails be deleted? If yes, is there any way to save them? ...
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Cool gadgets
 SONY’S UNVEILED new micro sized digital still camera “Qualia QO16-WE1,” equipped with a 2.1 mega-pixel CCD for the image sensor and 6.2mm/F2.8 lens on its tiny sized body, measuring 69.1mm x 24.0mm x 16.8mm....
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