August 21, 2004 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 Sci-fi living: evolutionary architecture in space Tourism has always been known as a luxury as well as an enriching experience for those who can afford it, aided by the expanding tourism industry. What began as a small-scale... BYTEBACK Steam message for games After I installed Counter Strike version 1.6 sucessfully, whenever I try to run the game, I receive a “steam” message which requires update on internet.... Geeks who? The internet is not only changing our outlook to life and work but is also going to change male-female ratio in workforce giving female population more choices to work. But what... Camera system finds there is smoke without fire A COMPANY claims to have developed a new fire-detection system that is the first in the world to use the images from video cameras to detect smoke by analysing its particular... WEBWATCH The site is designed to help students to understand chemistry. A number of topics are covered in an easy-to-understand language.... Gravity: beyond our physics? Some dark hands seem to be at work outside our Solar System, on the other side of the boundaries of our imagination and beyond our physics. Are we ready to accept... The Net Radiography guru Do you know who wrote the new software for Stephen Hawking when the genius of the century needed to upgrade his miracle chair without which he cannot communicate with the world around him because of his severe disability?... Optimize your PC for faster startup Is this fact or fiction? A two to three year old PC can never boot up WindowsXP in less than 30 seconds. Regardless of how fast your current system boots, it’s... Search for extraterrestrial intelligence For most of us mention of the word “extra-terrestrial” brings to mind the creature from the Steven Spielberg’s movie — “E.T.” No one can claim to have seen the ET,... TECH UPDATE A group of technology companies including Texas Instruments, STMicroelectronics and Broadcom, have announced that they will propose a new wireless networking standard up to ten times the speed of the current generation.... SCIENCE UPDATE The genetic building blocks that form the basis for life may also be used to build the tiny machines of nanotechnology, US researchers have said. A team at Purdue University said they had used ribonucleic acid... NEWSBITS The government has decided to reduce foreign dependence on avionics and aerospace in order to meet the needs of its upcoming projects like JF-17 Thunder fighter aircraft.... Importing jobs: can Pakistan join the outsourcing game? Outsourcing is the latest buzzword in the software industry. It provides giant software companies access to the global resources that are relatively cost-effective. According to a US-based research firm, about... COOL GADGETS Japanese IT venture AOS Technology displays the remote controlled pet communication unit “iSeePet,” makes it possible to provide food to pets from the remote through the Internet or mobile phone.... I-TERMS Spam: A deliberate barrage of unrequested and often inappropriate information in an electronic forum. It is used both as a noun and as a verb. The term is applied... NATIONAL SCI-TECH SCENE Renowned French scientist Prof Alain Krief has appreciated measures taken by the Higher Education Commission (HEC) Pakistan in the field of Science and Technology....

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