Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Sci-Tech World.
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The missing limb
 YOU use it as a phone. You send text messages through it and take pictures and make movies with it. Welcome to the ever-expanding world of cellphones, which continue to dazzle us with their mind-numbing features coupled with convenience....
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Byteback
 Repairing WindowsQUESTION: I use Windows XP SP2 (professional edition). However, my computer restarts whenever I open Msconfig. Also, when I click on shutdown, instead of displaying the options, my computer restarts....
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Thar: Pictures worth a thousand words
 Pakistan is a very beautiful country with a 900km coastline. It also has a number of natural fresh water resources as well as mountains. Meanwhile our deserts are also considered to be beautiful in their own way....
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The tumour that isn’t: blocking a path to cancer
 FOR those of us with dozens of moles, the spots speckling our skin can seem no more significant than freckles. But it turns out, each mole is a tumour of pigment...
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Of protection and recovery
 TO provide legal protection to those clients of the IT industry whose data are in the control of software companies, various initiatives are being launched globally....
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Microsoft’s game of ‘monopoly’
 “Software giant Microsoft must pay a fine of 497 million euros ($613m) for abusing its dominant market position,” ordered the European Commission earlier this year....
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Webwatch
 All about DNAhttp://www.dnai.org/ The study of DNA is extremely intriguing and has captured the attention of many scientists around the world....
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Distributed downloading system — II
LAST week we talked about the world of BitTorrents. Let’s go through a quick tutorial for people who are still having problems using it....
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Voyage of discovery
 WHEN it comes to astronomy and other sciences related to the study of space, the advancements made in this field of study have been nothing short of remarkable....
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Control of notifiable diseases in livestock
 Early recognition of a serious or exotic animal disease is one of the most important factors influencing the probability of controlling the ailment, and of reducing the resulting economic and social impacts on a community....
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The three-year-old from 3.3m years ago
Fossil hunters working in Ethiopia have unearthed the fragile bones of a baby ape-girl who lived 3.3m years ago, the earliest child ancestor discovered so far....
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Nine firms compete for coal-based power plant
Nine major international companies are seriously competing to set up a 1,200MW power plant near Karachi in response to the government’s emergency efforts to overcome power shortages....
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Cool gadgets
Laptop for childrenVTECH’S SLIM PAD is a laptop for children with a touch-sensitive tablet-cum-screen. It comprises light-up mouse and four extra cartridges for additional gameplay. It also features voice recorder and playback functions for language learning....
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These men think they''re about to change the world
DO you remember that awful feeling as a child on Christmas Day when Santa left you the toy you wanted . . . without any batteries? This feeling comes to me...
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