Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Sci-Tech World.
This page is updated every Saturday.
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Build your own PC
 Time and again you hear people grumble about the substandard components that are part of their home or office personal computers, cursing their PC vendors for fraud, wishing had they ever...
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BYTEBACK
 A “Window Protection Error” message is displayed a few minutes after I start my system. What’s the problem and how I can remove it...
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Get started with DivX media player
 Till a few years back it was considered impossible to store the whole movie on a single CD without degradation of the audio-visual quality. However, the introduction of modern compression technologies...
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WEBWATCH
 GRIN (Great Images in Nasa) is a fantastic collection of over a thousand pictures of important historical interest....
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Membrane filtration: a new technology
 Reverse osmosis (RO) is a desalination technique that is fast gaining attention due to its simplicity in operation and significant improvements in membrane technology....
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PCSIR holds month-long expo
 Holding industrial exhibitions and fairs is an important tool in promoting new products and improving business atmosphere at large....
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COMMENT: The core issues in mobile sector
Lately, we have seen our government’s determined resolve to making telecom facilities more accessible for the public....
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TECH UPDATE
Indian IT workers are getting increasingly higher salaries as the US technology industry’s demand for offshore services grows....
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SCIENCE UPDATE
Particle physicists have seen a rare happening that may force a rethink of current theories of sub-atomic matter. After watching more than seven trillion disintegrations of the kaon particle they have seen three peculiar events when they expected to see just one....
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NEWSBITS
A plea by developed countries to be allowed to go on using a gas that destroys ozone is being debated at an international meeting in Canada....
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NATIONAL SCI-TECH SCENE
Rubber, plastic and polymer technology should be introduced in public-sector universities and institutions of higher learning in the country. Chairman, Higher Education Commission (HEC), Prof Atta-ur-Rahman...
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Cultivation of strawberry in Khairpur
 After the devastation of the banana plantation over an area of about 50,000 acres, growers in district Khairpur are in search of a crop which could fetch them lucrative return...
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COOL GADGETS
 Sony’s latest e-book reader “LIBRIe” during its press preview. Using Royal Philips Electronics and E Ink Corporation’s six-inch electronic paper display....
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I-TERMS?: Terms for computer junkies
Pump up your computer-related vocabulary! Load your brains with these frequenty used i-terms....
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