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Man on the Mars: dream or reality?
 ANNOUNCING his new Space Vision mid-January President George W. Bush said the United States will be the first to send manned mission to Mars — by 2020....
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Google: information at your fingertips
WHEN you browse on the web, most engines return heaps of irrelevant results which makes the process tedious and time-consuing. To avoid this frustration, and to obtain exactly what you are...
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Webwatch
 Explore over 600 varieties of inventions and ideas of science fiction writers that has had some influence on science. This site documents creations that made their literary debuts well before...
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Terms for computer junkies
PUMP up your computer-related vocabulary! Load your brains with these frequenty used i-terms. H.323: A standard approved by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) that defines how...
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The age of erogenous barbarism
IN this age of pervasive change in an environment of cultural confluence, the complaint about abuse of privacy provided by the partitions to browse pornographic websites in the internet café, holding...
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Light at the end of the wire
 IN the last two decades, one of the most important developments in the field of telecommunications has been the introduction of fibre optics on the scene. Not only the optical fibres...
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Welcome to the world of PDAs
 ON my last flight to Lahore, I came across a relatively surprising sight, a couple of guys seated right in front of me, playing a game on a small handheld....
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Strange world out there
 THE cold, dark region known as the Kuiper Belt is a region beyond Pluto and Neptune where icy, frozen bodies roam. Strange worlds thought to be the remnants from the formation...
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Quantum codes introduced in real world
USING properties of quantum physics, the technique encrypts data with keys that reveal if they have been intercepted or tampered with. Quantum cryptography has emerged from the laboratory and into the...
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More signs of water found on Mars
 A Mars rover has found further evidence that water once existed on the red planet, the US space agency Nasa says....
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Scientists get a digital grip on ear prints
CRIMINALS are used to trying to avoid leaving fingerprints at a crime scene. But now British scientists have developed a computerized system that allows them to identify ear prints just as...
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CNG buses to cut pollution in Karachi
THE ministry for petroleum and natural resources is working on a plan to replace the diesel engines of all the buses with CNG (Compressed Natural Gas) ones in order to minimize...
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For your information
 MANY new ways have come up to generate, distribute and save more and more information on magnetic disks in the form of ones and zeroes. Researchers estimate that more than five...
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Byteback
 Bringing about IT revolution There is no denying the fact that India is looking forward to take over IT market while in Pakistan we are still toddlers in the field, despite the fact that we are a talented and skill-rich nation...
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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
 A FUJIFILM employee displays the new digital camera “FinePix F710”, equipped with a 6.2 mega-pixel Honeycomb CCD achieving wide dynamic range and smooth tone. Fujifilm will put...
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