Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Sci-Tech World.
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Lease of life for the internet system
 Who can forget the internet blackout Pakistan experienced last year, which cost our IT industry millions of dollars? The debacle was the...
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Byteback
 question: Whenever I am browsing the web with Internet Explorer, a web-page with the address http://www.filost.com/ banner2.aspx...
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Bacteria: A friend and a foe
 The Earth’s fossil records show that bacteria appeared more than 3.5 billion years ago and enabled the development of other....
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Resources: A threat to our ‘green gold’
 Pakistan is blessed with a variety of climates that give rise to a myriad of natural flora and fauna. But sadly, some of these species are on the verge of extinction....
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Software: How to get Linux easily
 Fixing the serious flaws in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer is easy: just switch to the free Firefox browser. Similarly, Outlook Express’s....
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Geekworld: Breathing life into characters
 Three dimensional animation is currently the hottest technology in the global markets, especially in gaming and filmmaking....
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Webwatch
 This website features a wealth of information pertaining to almost all the aspects of biology. You can browse either by subject, region or...
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Tips and tricks: Online offices
Your business can take you away from home. This means that you need to keep your data synchronized with various devices and computers used across the world....
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Nitty-gritty: To Venus and back
 Often, it is a man’s failure that leads him to his successes. One example is that of Mariner 1. This was the first unmanned spacecraft of the Mariner programme....
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Personality: Shining brightly
 Marie Curie (Nov 7, 1867 — July 4, 1934) is one of the most celebrated women of the early 1900s. She shared the Nobel prize in physics with husband Pierre Curie and the eminent....
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Global update: 9-year journey to unexplored planet
After two days of delay, Nasa’s New Horizons spacecraft executed a picture-perfect liftoff recently from Cape Canaveral in Florida on a....
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National scene: New building codes formulated
So said Syed Safwanullah, the federal housing and works minister, in Islamabad recently. Talking to reporters after the end of an international conference on earthquakes, he said that after the....
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In the end...: Pollution-free fuels
 Concerns ABOUT climate change and the need to provide clean fuels has forced governments all over the world to revisit their energy policies. To achieve the goal of energy security, there...
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Cool gadgets
 The Falcon Northwest X2-4800 SLI gives the user a rich gaming experience with its blazing, dual-core performance and attractive automotive. The processor is liquid...
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