October 18, 2003 Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Sci-Tech World. This page is updated every Saturday. For current issue Click here Robots: will they replace humans? ROBOTS are becoming more and more sophisticated every day. Scientists and technicians today, with the help of advances in computer technology, are building, smaller, smarter and faster robots capable of more autonomous functions.... Destination: spin city YOU have to admit: floppy drives are snail slow and painfully small in size. While Zip drives are faster, they are far from universal, and Zip discs are anything but cheap.... Webwatch The National Museum of Natural History informs the stories behind the rocks and the gems, and explain how they were made. Rocks such as slate, granite, marble and even sandstone all had previous incarnations somewhere... Terms for computer junkies PUMP up your computer-related vocabulary! Load your brains with these frequenty used i-terms. Virtual memory: An imaginary memory area supported by some operating systems (for instance, Windows but not DOS) in conjunction with the hardware. You can think of virtual memory as.... Red alert for Pakistan! WSIS straight ahead PAKISTAN is in serious danger of missing the boat again. And apart from the government, no one in Pakistan except for national and international information and communications technology (ICT) experts seems... Computer crimes: what the governemt should do to curb them “‘WORMS’ and ‘viruses’ were described in biology text books, not police reports. Today terms like these bring to mind crashed networks, massive disruptions in communications and infrastructure systems, and billions of... SMART-1: the first spacecraft of future RECENTLY, Europe’s first science spacecraft, SMART-1, designed to orbit the Moon concluded the initial part of its journey by completing its first Earth orbit after a perfect launch during the night... New Napster software launched A BRAND-new Napster unveiled its digital face last week, a year after the once-proud file-swapping service was sold in pieces in bankruptcy court. The new digital music service, owned by CD- and DVD-burning software company Roxio, bears little resemblance to the original... Nasa successfully tests first laser-powered aircraft EVER since the dawn of powered flight, it has been necessary for all aircraft to carry onboard fuel – whether in the form of batteries, fuel, solar cells, or even a... Is cosmos a duodecahedron? WE could be living in a small Universe where space is curved in on itself, rather like a football, say researchers in last week’s Nature journal.... Tasman Spirit oil spill damage assessment A SPECIAL meeting of the Environment Donors Coordination Group held here was told that the first phase for assessing the damage caused by Tasman Spirit oil spill close to Karachi shore... Search your way through web SEARCH engines are based on databases and use automated “bots” or “spiders” to crawl the Web and pull down key words into the engine’s database. When a user types a word... US duo share Nobel chemistry prize THIS year’s Nobel Prize for Chemistry is shared by two US scientists. Peter Agre and Roderick MacKinnon are being honoured by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for their work on channels in cell membranes.... Byteback Tech definitions COuld you explain these terms: Socks, Gopher and Cookies and how are their application? Yasir Noor... ITeaser THINK your IT knowledge is really good? Rack your brain with this I-Teaser and find out for sure:... Cool gadgets A 25mm SMART CAR is the world’s smallest radio controlled car. It features in the 2004 edition of the Guinness World Records....

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