Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Sci-Tech World.
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Hackers 101: how it all began
 IT STARTED out as any other day. On a slightly chilly Thursday morning in November, a team of computer administrators at the University of Utah walked into their cubicles to carry...
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What’s new in MSN 6
 GONE are the days when chatting was considered to be an act of addiction, on the contrary, it’s a business need today. Corporate people often use IMs to stay in touch...
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Webwatch
 Compiled by a team of researchers and taxonomists, this vast digital image library allows you to delve into the head of a dinosaur, salamander, and Sudanese plated lizard without ever having to pierce skin....
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Terms for computer junkies
PUMP up your computer-related vocabulary! Load your brains with these frequenty used i-terms. InfiniBand: Both an I/O architecture and a specification for the transmission of data between processors and I/O devices that has been gradually replacing the PCI bus in high-end servers...
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Piracy goes unabated in Asian countries: study
INCREASING losses in dollar and a shrinking software market are two main causes of concern for the global software industry today. This was indicated in the Eighth Annual BSA Global Software...
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The mysteries of dreamworld
 MOST of us think we don’t get enough of it. Some manage just fine on half the usual amount. It’s interesting that we spend a third of our lives at it...
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What it takes to get warp speed?
 TODAY we are living in the Age of Information, and of course, the internet has become best source of information. But what good purpose would this access serve if it is...
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Can the idiot box talk sense? Rather, Science?
 THIS is a question India is grappling with, as she studies the possibility of launching a science channel on television. “We have to launch a channel that is going to be a success. The Channel has to....
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China to make supercomputer with 10,000Gflops speed
DAWNING Information Industry Co Ltd, China’s biggest computer maker, said last week it would make the fastest supercomputer in the country....
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World’s first ‘photon copier’ on a chip
 A RESEARCH team at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) has for the first time incorporated on a single chip both a widely tunable laser and an all-optical...
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Unlocking the brain’s secrets
 THE international team behind the atlas used thousands of images of the brains of people of all ages, and with a range of conditions. They hope the data will tell them...
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Paksat will continue to face losses
THE Paksat-1, launched last year, will continue facing losses for its entire five-year life and the satellite will not be marketable in its two target regions, the Middle East and African...
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Of sheep and men
HUMANITY is shaped by education, science and culture, not by cloning. Dolly is dead. The most famous sheep in the world, also the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell, was put down in February this year. This happened shortly after the birth of a cloned baby was....
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Byteback
 Editing boot.ini fileHow can I remove the dual boot option which comes when the computer starts. Although I formatted the drive containing WinXP, the option still exists. Please tell me how can I get...
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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
 camera giant Nikon unveils the new professional-use digital camera “D2H”, equipped with newly developed 4.1-mega pixel JFET image sensor which allows you to shoot eight frames per second. This product is expected to hit the shelves in...
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