Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Sci-Tech World.
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COVER STORY: How would you like your search? Even in a third-world country like Pakistan, the internet has increasingly acquired the status of an indispensable resource. It is used for entertainment, education, communication and, above all, information sharing....
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INTERVIEW: ‘We are just at the beginning of the most exciting part of all this.’
 Although Sir Tim Berners-Lee is widely recognised as the founder of the idea of the semantic web, my understanding is that the idea was first articulated in an article in the Scientific American magazine in 2001 which was jointly co-authored by Lee....
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DOT COM: Caution: Read before you use
 World over, people use household products to either speed up their work or make it more efficient. These products have become a regular feature in most houses and are becoming increasingly popular.....
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Q’N’A: Byteback
I have two DSL connections, one on Ethernet and the other on USB. There is sinking and unsinking of line in both. Please suggest measures to solve this problem, so that if one line drops, the other becomes active.......
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TECHNOLOGY BUZZ: Take to the air
 With the prices of broadband connections falling almost every day in our markets, the number of households with high-speed internet access and multiple computers is growing steadily. In such a scenario, the most obvious thing to do....
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Cool Gadgets
 For all health-obsessed people out there, the Zadro Nano UV Disinfection Scan- ner is the ultimate solution. The device guarantees to clean up to 99.99 per cent of germs on any given surface. And supposedly, the gadget does a quick 10-second scan to destroy staph....
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GAME ON: Out of the box
 Microsoft entered the video game console market in 2001 with the Xbox. It launched the console with several high quality exclusive games such as Halo: Combat Evolved, Dead or Alive 3, Project Gotham Racing etc.....
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TIPS AND TRICKS: In the line of Firefox
 Web browser is perhaps the most widely used application over the internet. Consequently, this is an arena where major software giants are known to have played a part in what is called ‘browser war’. The resurgence of Firefox (FF)....
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From Far And Wide
 Retreat of glaciers will directly impact water resources and affect agriculture, energy, tourism and other sectors of economy, This was observed by Dr Madan L. Shrestha, academician at Nepal Academy....
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FUN INTENDED: When buying a computer... A complete guide for dummies
 Do you have a fear about buying a computer? Well, fear not anymore, because I am here to give you valuable suggestions on how best to lose money… erm! I mean how best to buy a system that comes up to your requirements.....
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CAREERS: Zoology Animal magnetism
 It may come as a surprise to many, but there are a number of people out there who not only care for animals, but are actually willing to take up a career that involves their well-being. If you belong to this category, then zoology is the field for you.....
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BY THE WAY: Through the telescope
 Maarten Schmidt, a professor emeritus of astronomy at California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, has spent a lifetime studying the most exotic denizens of the cosmos. Schmidt, 78, a native of Holland, is credited with revealing the first-known quasar....
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