Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Sci-Tech World.
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Latest fertility technology gaining ground in Pakistan
 Infertility can be a serious problem for married couples. It can wreak havoc with an otherwise peaceful family life; yet it is a taboo to discuss the problem with a doctor...
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BYTEBACK
 System crashesMy PC freezes while working on internet, playing games or listening to songs. After which everything stops functioning and I have to restart my computer....
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WAP & WML: from web to wireless
 Most of you who own relatively newer cellphones, must have come across a feature that shows a microbrowser incorporated in it. This mini-browser is known as “WAP browser.” Ever thought how...
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WEBWATCH
 Widely expected now as the most innovative and interactive science education sites available on net, the Aspire lab allows you to learn about a variety of science-related subjects such as cosmic zoom, seismic waves, and lunar phases....
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The science behind bigger, better business
Buildings, ships and planes are getting bigger every day. And for BBB (Bigger Better Business), the logic goes: biggest will give you best! But is this proposition true?...
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AWARDS: IT excellence awards presented
 One of the most interesting events in the capital last week was the holding of an excellence awards ceremony in which eight professionals were presented awards for their achievements in information...
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What is the value of business intelligence?
 If you picked up any IT magazine in the past six months, you undoubtedly came across the latest “fad” in today’s business world — business intelligence. Like many of the buzzwords...
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New technology: B&W photos that resist fading for 115 years
 HerE is something incredible but true: a new technology that produces black and white digital photo prints that retains their quality, and do not fade for 115 years....
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TECH UPDATE
With microchip technology reaching its physical limits, IBM says it’s shifting the focus of much of its processor-design strategy from the chips themselves to the creation of tightly...
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SCIENCE UPDATE
A US-led international consortium announced it had sequenced the genetic code of the rat, an achievement that should greatly speed up the quest to cure disease in humans....
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NEWSBITS
Federal Minister for Information Technology Awais Ahmad Khan Leghari on Friday last week underlined the need for greater cooperation between Pakistan and China for the growth and promotion of telecom and IT sectors in Pakistan....
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NATIONAL SCI-TECH SCENE
The Higher Education Commission (HEC) chairman, Prof Attaur-Rahman said that the government was spending Rs5 billion on the promotion of higher education in the country...
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A deadly weed reservoir of predatory beetle
 Generally considered as useless, the weed belongs to the category of the most unwanted plants not only because it can be harmful due to its poisonous substance but also due to...
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COOL GADGETS
 A woman displays a rollkeyboard at a computer exhibition. Some 200 electronics companies displayed their latest products in the five-day show....
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