Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Sci-Tech World.
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Building a strong research base
 A STRONG research base is a sin qua non for robust development. Countries that fail to pay emphasis on the foundations of their development visions, either do not achieve them...
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Your guide to buying digicams
 NO exaggeration, but after you have used the smart and powerful digital cameras available in the market today, there is a fair chance that you will never use a film...
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Webwatch
 IT is a home of the Hubble space telescope, a Nasa origins mission that seeks answers to fundamental questions about the universe and our place in it. The site is populated with the most stunning images from the telescope. These days it...
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Terms for computer junkies
PUMP up your computer-related vocabulary! Load your brains with these frequenty used i-terms. OSI reference model: The OSI, or Open System Interconnection, model defines a networking framework for implementing protocols in seven layers....
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A road to Titan
 IT IS the second largest moon in the solar system after Ganymede and due to the fact that it has an atmosphere, also the most interesting. A thick smog covers the...
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Eke the max out of your OS
 IS YOUR Windows 98/ME-based system too slow for you? Are you craving for speed and performance? If so, then read on....
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Pakistani Americans’ role in the development of Pakistan
ASSOCIATION of Pakistani Scientists and Engineers of North America (Apsena) held its 20th Annual Conference in Albany, New York, on Aug 23....
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New machines for small and medium businesses
 IN PAKISTAN, Hewlett-Packard has come up with a range of new products designed for business concerns. On the occasion, Dawn ScienceDotcom had a brief discussion with Colin Chow, General Manager, Personal...
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Single chip supercomputer to be developed
IBM plans to take supercomputing to the next level with the development of a chip capable of handling one trillion operations per second. The tech giant is working with researchers at...
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Asteroid heading for Earth, may hit in 2014
 A GIANT asteroid is heading for Earth and could hit in 2014, U.S. astronomers have warned British space monitors....
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Earth has a new look
 A BRAND new look and understanding of the place we call home. That’s what you’ll get in a complete global topographic data set generated by Nasa and the National Imagery and...
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Rs10bn allocated for education, says minister
FEDERAL Science and Technology Minister and Higher Education Commission Chairman Dr Attaur Rahman has said that Rs10 billion has been allocated to improve the education standard and provision of research facilities...
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How neural networks make thinking machines
 AN ARTIFICIAL Neural Network is an information processing technology derived from the concept that computers, like biological brains that learn from experience, can learn, identify, and process information to solve complex...
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Byteback
 Address book
I want to format my disk and run the Set Up again. For that I need to take back up of Address Book and the date therein, so that I may be able to import the data after installation....
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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
 APPLE unleashed the Power Mac G5 which is the world’s first 64-bit desktop processor designed by IBM and Apple...
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