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  'MythBusters' ready
  to storm TV season

  Show's stars talk about duct tape, dirty cars, ricocheting bullets, and crazy experiments in the new episodes of Discovery Channel's most popular series.
  • Photos: New experiments
  • Video: Upcoming episodes

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  CNET Prizefight: Zune HD vs. iPod Touch

  In this corner, a Zune HD that has been pleasantly surprising critics. In the other, a 3rd-gen iPod Touch known more for what it lacks (a camera) than for its few new features.

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• Windows 7 to usher in crush of cheap laptops

  A quick peek at the lineups of new laptops from Hewlett-Packard, Toshiba, and Dell make it clear that laptop prices are diving.

  (Posted in Nanotech - The Circuits Blog by Brooke Crothers)

• Native Client in Chrome: Google flexes Web muscle

  Google has built into its browser the ability to tap directly into a computer's native processing power through software called Native Client. Also: more extensions work.

  (Posted in Deep Tech by Stephen Shankland)

• Researchers tally real-life mileage for plug-in cars

  With more plug-in electric vehicles coming to market in the next two years, experts say new ways to measure fuel efficiency are needed, including "electricity per mile."

  (Posted in Green Tech by Martin LaMonica)

• EcoATM pays you for used gadgets

  Kiosk provides self-serve e-cycling to consumers ready to ditch their portable devices. The first machine is in Omaha, Neb., and more are on the way.

  (Posted in Crave by Leslie Katz)

• Why CIOs are saying no to Macs

  It's not so much a judgment on the performance of the Mac OS itself, but rather a recognition of the prohibitive costs involved in making a change.

  (Posted in Business Tech by Jo Best)

• For the love of pinball

  The Pacific Pinball Expo this weekend is the place to be to check out the bells and bright lights of yesteryear's game machines.
  • Photos: Pacific Pinball Expo

  (Posted in Geek Gestalt by Daniel Terdiman)

• Week in review: Net theft, under your nose

  New Trojan steals money from accounts while account holders are logged in. Google resolves misguided e-mail issue. Also: Facebook fakes.

  (Posted in Business Tech by Steven Musil)

• Photos: Top-rated reviews of the week

  Here are a few of CNET Reviews' favorite items from the past week, including the Asus UL30A-A1 laptop, 2010 Hyundai Genesis Coupe, Norton AntiVirus 2010, and more.

• Nissan's robot cars mimic fish to avoid crashing

  The Eporo mini robot cars mimic schools of fish to avoid colliding into obstacles--including each other. They're an upgrades from the bumble bee-inspired BR23Cs.

  (Posted in Crave by Tim Hornyak)

• Ig Nobel winners: Knuckle cracking to panda poo

  Honored research includes findings that cracking your knuckles won't give you arthritis, panda feces are good for composting, and named cows produce more milk.
  • Introducing the bra that's meant to be taken off

  (Posted in InSecurity Complex by Elinor Mills)

• Nvidia 'Fermi' chip for Mac, Windows too

  Nvidia's new Fermi chip is being billed as a supercomputing chip but it is also aimed at Apple's Snow Leopard and Windows 7.
  •  Supercomputer to use 'Fermi' chip
  •  Nvidia gives first look at 'Fermi'

  (Posted in Nanotech - The Circuits Blog by Brooke Crothers)

• Time Warner CEO: No thanks to big media deals

  Jeff Bewkes says the company is not interested in bidding on NBC Universal or any other big media company because those deals typically fail.
  • Report: Comcast in talks with NBC Universal

  (Posted in Signal Strength by Marguerite Reardon)

• Google: Pirate Bay booted off search by mistake

  Site was unavailable on Google's search pages for a while Friday, but Google says it was just a mistake. The controversial BitTorrent search engine is now available in search, yet apparently down.
  • Pirate Bay suffers outage, site back up

  (Posted in Digital Media by Greg Sandoval)
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