Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Sci-Tech World.
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Change is constant in telecom sector
 OVER THE past few months, developments in the telecom sector have come thick and fast. In the week that this piece was written, there was breaking news almost every other day,...
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BYTEBACK
 Format change
QUESTION: How can I convert VCD to CD? Which software should I use?
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Islamabad
1. How can I change .DAT files into MPEG format? Is the required software available online?...
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The faces of racism
 IN FEBRUARY of 2001, Nature and Science, two of the world’s leading scientific publications, published simultaneously two versions of the human genome sequence. This way we learnt that human beings possess...
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End of oil era not far off?
 THE ONE thing that international bankers don’t want to hear is that the second Great Depression may be round the corner. But recently, a group of ultra-conservative Swiss financiers asked a...
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The process is the product
 WE HAVE many information technology companies, like Fauji Soft, PRAL, Enabling Technology and Gulf Net, that were launched with fanfare but which failed to live up to expectations. In comparison, there...
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War of the browsers?
 In the good old days of 1997, Netscape Navigator had a market share of about 72 per cent. At the same time Internet Explorer 3.0 (IE3.0) could barely grab 18 per...
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WEBWATCH
 Sodium is quite literally an explosive element. In school, most of us learnt about sodium’s rather wild reaction with water. However, this website aims to prove everyone wrong....
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The Urdu factor
 For a while now, we have been using MS Word for English documents. However, what most of us don’t know is that it can be used for documents in Urdu as...
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How computer viruses work
 IN the late 1980s, computer viruses were born. It was a time when games were very popular, along with simple word processors and spreadsheets. Users would dial up a bulletin board...
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Alone in the universe? May be not
 For decades now, astronomers, physicists and scientists have debated over the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence and civilizations beyond Earth. Are there other beings inhabiting some distant world out there in the...
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Atom smasher yields ‘perfect fluid’
RESEARCHERS smashing gold atoms together to mimic conditions in the first microseconds after the creation of the universe have observed an unexpected new state of matter....
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Senate body seeks more funds for science, technology
THE SENATE Standing Committee on Science and Technology last week urged the government to allocate more funds for organizations entrusted with the task of promoting research and making headway in the...
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Stop, thief!
 WE web designers have a tendency to get pretty angry when it comes down to cyber crime. Especially if we’re the ones being ripped off! Every web designer has a recurring...
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COOL GADGETS
 CONTAX’s i4r is an innovatively designed camera. One needs to pull out a small part of the camera, which consists of the flash and a 1.5inch LCD screen when switched off. The camera is compact and easily operable....
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