Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Sci-Tech World.
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Raising speed bar with magical fibre networks
 TELECOMMUNICATION is growing at a furious pace, and fibre optic is one of its most dynamically moving sectors. In fact because of the telecommunication industry’s insatiable appetite for capacity, in recent...
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Database concepts for dummies
 SURE database sounds cool and you have heard this word at least a hundred times by now. It’s another thing that you don’t understand the ABCs of it, and are scared...
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Webwatch
 This excellent site offers a practical guide to building a history, with useful tips on selecting a platform and sustaining a community. This site provides first-hand account of the pivotal moments that impact us...
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Terms for computer junkies
PUMP up your computer-related vocabulary! Load your brains with these frequenty used i-terms. Thread: In computer programming, a thread is placeholder information associated with a single use of a program that can handle...
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Meet the MEMS
 THE Sept 20 issue of DawnscienceDotcom magazine carried an article on “Smart Dust”. A term MEMS was used in the first few lines. MEMS stands for micro-electro-mechanical systems. MEMS is a...
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Black hole makes deepest-ever note
 NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, after its four years of X-ray imagining, recently monitored a very deep sound coming from a massive black hole 250 million light years from Earth. The black...
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Everything you wanted to know about firewalls
 MY computer is acting strangely. I’ve got a virus on my system. Somebody took and changed my hotmail account’s password. Now what should I do are some constant complaints of the...
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Biometrics: the future of surveillance
 AS reliance on computers and the internet is growing, both in corporate world as well as at individual users’ level, related security problems are intensifying. The security concerns are as dangerous...
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Microsoft sued for ‘massive cascading failures’
A SUIT in the court has been filed against Microsoft, alleging that the company is engaging in unfair business practices due to its failure to better protect its software from...
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New possibilities for biological technology
 A TEAM of researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder has taken another step in the quest to build a compact, tabletop x-ray microscope that could be used for...
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Titan may have oily oceans
 TITAN - Saturn’s major moon - may have a surface of oily lakes or oceans, according to the latest radar research. The giant Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico has transmitted...
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Formulation of national S&T plan urged
ADVISER to the prime minister on science and technology Dr Attaur Rehman has asked the S&T ministry to come up with a national science and technology policy and action plan....
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Elevator to take us into space
 SANTA Fe in New Mexico is a Spanish-cum-Indian origin tourist town. We had to go there to attend the wedding of Ye Ling, a Taiwanese friend of our daughter Aliya. It...
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Byteback
 Computer freezes When I send an email using the Hotmail or Yahoo! account, my computer hangs for sometime. To resolve this problem, I reinstalled the Windows operating system, and for a few days it....
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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
 THE NEW Nokia 7600 phone is unveiled. The radical shaped 3G phone is expected to be available in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific towards the end of the year...
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