Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Sci-Tech World.
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Building the blocks of ‘reality’
 IT IS not about playing games on your PS2 or watching movies with a headset on. It fact, it addresses an idea which may be far-fetched for most of you. The idea that the world we live in is just a simulation, or in other words, a hoax....
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Delve into your advance level studies virtually
 THE internet’s searchable databases effectively cater to the needs of students through a whole host of academic websites designed to help exclusively in the several areas of studies, revision and exam...
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Webwatch
 BBC’s interactive, entertaining and educational site leaves you not only in better touch with your physical and psychological well-being, but more informs about the skin you’re in. Besides interesting quizzes that you can take here...
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Terms for computer junkies
PUMP up your computer-related vocabulary! Load your brains with these frequenty used i-terms. Backhaul:This terms has three definitions which are given below: 1. In wireless network technology, to transmit voice and data traffic from a cell site to a switch....
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The ‘mystery of creation’ matters
 SCIENTISTS and physicists are continuously conducting experiments to understand the daunting question of how the universe was created. Several researches carried out have provided certain answers, some mysteries still prevail to...
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What can make the world turn faster?
 GEOLOGICAL and fossil records factually prove that the Earth’s spin has changed over the millennia. These ancient clocks seem to indicate that the Earth is winding down, like a spinning top...
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SALT: the future speech technology for the web
 SPEECH is one of the ultimate user interfaces: it is far easier to speak than to use your fingers to type and move mouse to input information. Besides, it is preferable...
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Improving water productivity
 AT THE time of independence, in Pakistan, about 64 million acre feet (MAF) of water was being utilized annually through the irrigation canals. Now with the increase in the number of...
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Oracle warns of serious vulnerabilities
DATABASE and enterprise application vendor Oracle is warning customers of two new vulnerabilities in its E-business suite and a third in its database that could be exploited by hackers. If not patched, the two security flaws in Oracle’s E-Business Suite could let hackers install and run malicious Code Of Their Choice...
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Growth-stimulating cue identified for nerve cells
 FOR DECADES, scientists have hunted for signals that guide nerve cells’ tentacle-like axons, hoping to understand how these cell tips reach out to distant targets. It’s knowledge that might one day...
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When smokers quit, surgical wounds heal better
QUITTING smoking for as little as four weeks can dramatically reduce the odds of wound infection after surgery, according to a recent report in Annals of Surgery. Surgery patients are routinely advised to quit smoking before their operation, and previous research has shown that abstinence...
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PTCL begins blocking proxy servers of prohibited sites
THE Pakistan Telecommunication Company has started to block those proxy servers which were increasingly being employed by Internet users to access proscribed websites, according to well-placed sources in the telephone utility....
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Local contents on the web
MORE than one million people are reported to have an access to the internet in our country. As the physical infrastructure penetrates deeper into remote places, there is an unexamined hypothesis...
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Byteback
 I have these questions: 1. Some programs that I installed recently are no longer running. Although their shortcuts exist but when I click on the icon to start I get message to install the software. Can you tell me...
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ITeaser
THINK your IT knowledge is really good? Rack your brain with this I-Teaser and find out for sure:...
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Cool gadgets
 CHAIRMAN of India’s Encore Software Ltd Vinay Deshpande holds the “Simputer”. India’s “Simputer”, a cheap hand-held computer aimed at busting the digital divide, is gaining popularity in small towns and schools after overcoming...
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