Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Sci-Tech World.
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Blazing the gene trail
 Any INTELLIGENT fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius, and a lot of courage, to move in the opposite direction. — Albert Einstein...
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Byteback:
 Editor’s reply: Your system files have been corrupted beyond repair. I suggest you format your hard disk and reinstall Windows. After this, run a complete system scan from...
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A car made in Pakistan?
 THE CLAIM that a Pakistani company has produced the country’s “first national car” has taken the market by surprise, besides raising a lot of questions. After all, we don’t even produce sewing needles....
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World’s first digital hospital
 WHEN Gwen Allen’s 60-year-old husband had a heart attack, she had no doubt where she wanted the ambulance to go. After all, she is a nurse at St Anthony....
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Are days of the desk numbered?
THE OFFICE DESK, as we know it, may have had its day. A large study on the future of work in the UK predicts the rise of the “mobile worker” moving...
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For a customized desktop
 There are thousands, if not millions, of ways to customize your PC. After all, the ‘P’ in ‘PC’ stands for ‘Personal’....
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Shadows of treachery
 Shadow of Rome is the story of two young friends. One is a muscle-bound soldier-turned-gladiator and the other is a refined albeit clever gentleman...
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Webwatch:
 This website features a wealth of information on fishes. Here, you cannot just check out fishes by their life history, uses and genetics, but you...
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Using SMTP
Email clients and web browsers are not really necessary when it comes to sending emails. In fact, even without an email client, you can send emails by directly issuing the commands, which an email client....
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How smart dust technology works
 When the particles are grouped together, they automatically generate highly flexible, low-power networks with a range of functions...
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Power to the people
 In developing countries, there is a shortage of information on attitudes towards biotech products. Public participation in the decision...
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Six-country, US-led pact on environment
A US-LED, six-nation pact to develop clean energy technologies and combat global warming was launched last week with its members denying it was designed to undermine the Kyoto protocol....
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Use of remote sensing technology urged
INCREASED USE of remote sensing technology was needed for rapid national development, said the president of the Inter-Islamic Network of Space Sciences and Technology, who is also chairman of the Pakistan Space....
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Cool gadgets:
 LOWRANCE’s iWay 500C is a Global Positioning System unit with a 5inch, 320 x 320 display. It has a built-in 20GB hard drive for map data along with an MP3...
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Life during the ‘blackout’
 “No, no. Don’t!” I tell myself as my fingers stretch themselves towards the mouse, which I know will invariably find its way to the ISP server’s icon....
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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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