Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Sci-Tech World.
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DNA chips: diciphering the programmed genomes
 Most of you might find it very hard to believe if someone tells you that in some sense, our existence is all programmed. But surprisingly, that is true!...
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BYTEBACK
 Creating an Acrobat filePlease tell me how can I create pdf files? KAMRAN SHEIKH Rawalpindi ...
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In privacy, we trust
 Of all the threats to your personal computer’s security, you meet the biggest one when you connect it to the internet. With so many well-designed worms, catastrophic viruses, devious Trojan horses...
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WEBWATCH
 This site offers very well presented tutorials and free code in C/C++, Perl, Java, Javascript, ASP, PHP, SQL, .Net and VB for the following: algorithms...
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The hazards of radiation on alien worlds
 Though the possibility of humans settling on the Moon and the Red Planet is now closer than ever, the most important factor remains to be ascertained — the dangerous and deadly...
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Internet cafe: the bigger picture
 Internet cafes have played a visible role in promoting internet usage. It is a public place where people can use a computer with internet access for an affordable fee. Café may...
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Understand what ‘pure power’ means to PC
 Every time you go for computer shopping, you search for the most suitable hardware that could meet your requirement best. You choose your desired CPU, motherboard and all cool stuff, but...
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Caring for the oceans and seas
Our planet is seventy per cent sea water. This notion is reinforced by the vastness of the world’s seas, which cover nearly 362 million square kilometres. The Pacific Ocean alone accounts...
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TECH UPDATE
Advanced Micro Devices’ Spansion flash memory joint venture plans to announce the second-generation of its Mirrorbit flash memory designed specifically for cell phones and other wireless devices, the company says....
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SCIENCE UPDATE
Saturn’s moon, Phoebe, has been battered for billions of years by interplanetary debris, and the signs of past violence are clear in images snapped by a spacecraft headed for orbit around the ringed planet....
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NEWSBITS
The Federal Minister for Information Technology and Telecom, Awais Ahmad Khan Leghari, said that the government has launched a plan to develop a Microsoft desktop...
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NATIONAL SCI-TECH SCENE
The Central Development Working Party (CDWP) has approved a project initiated by the ministry of information technology for setting up a first data centre to house the federal government’s database and form a secure internal communication infrastructure....
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Armyworm outbreak on early sown cotton in Ghotki
 According to the agriculture ordinance, raising paddy nursery before May 10 in Sindh is not allowed. This restriction is based on the fact that early sowing of nursery serves as a...
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COOL GADGETS
 Japan’s electronics giant Sony displays the new high-performance headphone “Q010-MDR1,” equipped with the newly developed 50mm-diametre driver...
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