If you know what this is and where it’s located, you could win a prize in the CNET Road Trip Picture of the Week challenge.

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Do you have to shut your computer down for 15 seconds each time you reboot? Are Macs really safe from malware? How can you fully delete data from a hard drive? The experts weigh in.

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45 Minutes on IM: Eric Brown, a manager on IBM Research’s Watson project, talks with CNET about building a computer that may be able to beat the world’s best ‘Jeopardy’ players. He’s confident the computer can emerge victorious.

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It’s taken less than two months for a game company to successfully work Microsoft’s new Kinect motion-controller into a sex game demo. The question now is how far will people take the hit device?

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The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals largely upholds an earlier decision, but it rules that the maker of Glider software violated a contractual covenant.

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Known as 1378 (km) because of the length of the border between the former East and West Germany, the game has some people angry because it depicts the shooting of East German refugees fleeing into West Germany.

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The band got more than 100 people to use a special GPS app from Range Rover to parade through the streets of Los Angeles, spelling out its name writ large. Now Range Rover wants the public at large to use the app for interesting “visualizations” in cities around the world.

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“The Birth of the 787 Dreamliner,” by Boeing photographer Edgar Turner, is a fantastic look behind the scenes of the much-anticipated and (much-delayed) new airplane.

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45 Minutes on IM: Kelly Reeves, editor in chief of Web culture clearinghouse Urlesque, talks to CNET about the 2010 Urlies and Web culture in general. Justin Bieber was discussed.

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Thanks to the Kinect motion controller and games like Call of Duty: Black Ops, the industry sees its best-ever November, besting the same month in 2008 by about $30 million. Overall, the industry posted sales of $2.99 billion.

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Road Trip at Home: As more and more people have moved to California’s central coast, the number of overwintering migrating butterflies has dropped precipitously. Here’s why, and what we can do about it.

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In a new partnership with E-Green Technologies, the Mountain View, Calif., NASA facility will host a 235-foot-long and 65-foot-wide airship that runs on algae-based biofuel.

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Unconfirmed reports suggest that the recent departure of Blizzard China’s general manager could be related to the leak. Supposedly, Diablo 3 is planned for a 2011 release.

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Road Trip at Home: For more than a century, the U.S. considered San Francisco its most important Pacific port, so it installed countless forms of coastal defenses between the Civil and Cold wars.

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A recently discovered microbe has DNA unlike any other life form on Earth. It substitutes arsenic for phosphorus, and it may help us understand how life could prosper elsewhere.

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Road Trip at Home: With her new start-up, Walls360, Yiying Lu is hoping to make it possible for more people to be able to appreciate art and make it a regular part of their lives.

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A tradition started with a wrong number in a Sears ad continues. Thousands of people from all over the world will call or e-mail NORAD to find out Santa’s Christmas Eve whereabouts.

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45 Minutes on IM: Angelo Sotiro discusses plans to bring the niche artist community site and its now 15 million registered users to the mainstream.

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