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Windmills an efficient source of energy
 THE high tariff of electricity in Pakistan coupled with inaccessibility of the people of far-flung areas has undoubtedly increased the need of power generation through cost-effective means like wind turbines....
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Optical storage media: the new media on the block
 A FEW years back Optical storage media, in other words, CD-ROMs were considered a prized possession. This device’s ability to hold huge amounts of data, the relative immunity to magnetic fields...
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Webwatch
 A VIRTUAL museum that experiments with new and more interactive ways of exhibiting interesting ‘Ecology and Environment’ information. It enables the user to explore 300 pages of photographs, animation, videos, drawings and text....
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I-Terms
VOICE response system: A form of speech synthesis in which sentences are formed by concatenating pre-recorded words from a database. Unlike a TTS system, which uses speech synthesis to form...
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‘Biodiversity for food security’
 BIODIVERSITY plays a crucial role for agriculture and food production. Humans depend on the variety of food, shelter, and goods for their livelihood. However, humans put increasing pressure on species and...
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Greeting ET, the fastest way
 SEARCHING for life elsewhere in the universe is a time consuming job and one that requires tremendous amount of patience and optimism. Waiting and listening to the skies in hope of...
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Optimize your website for top position in search engines
 SURE, anyone can build a website with a little or no practice but attracting visitors to your website is not as easy as one would like to think. It requires considerable...
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Appreciating enterprise
 FEW have heard about the Rolex Awards for enterprise, a prestigious award given to outstanding individuals for their efforts in development. These awards were created to provide visionary men and women...
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Intel cancels 4GHz Pentium 4 plans
INTEL has abandoned plans to develop a Pentium 4 chip that would have processed computer instructions at speeds of up to 4GHz per second....
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Design error likely behind Genesis crash: Nasa
 PROBLEMS with switches aboard Nasa’s Genesis solar probe may have kept its parachute from opening, which led to the craft’s crash-landing in the Utah desert, the US space agency said....
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Scientists ponder the problem with gravity
 IMAGINE the weight of a nagging suspicion that what held your world together, a constant and consistent presence you had come to understand and rely on, wasn’t what it seemed. That’s...
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Construction at Thar coal project begins next year SINDH Minister for Mines and Mineral Development Irfanullah Khan Marwat has said that the tariff of electricity to be generated by the Thar Coal Power Project would be decided at a...
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Education in blogosphere
BLOGS can be used for amassing knowledge or anything else one wants to make available through a World Wide Web (WWW) browser. Technically, it is one of the easy, fast and...
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Byteback
 Audio cassette Is there any device available in the world market to play an audio cassette on a PC; if not, is there any way to do so...
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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
 JAPANESE precision-equipment maker Olympus presents new digital camera ‘i:robe IR-500’ (L) and the portable hard disk drive music player ‘m:robe MR-500i’ (R) at a press preview. The digital camera and the 20GB player are scheduled to go...
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