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AMD is launching its first tablet-optimized APU today, in a bid to challenge Intel's de facto dominance of the Windows 8 tablet market. Dubbed Hondo, the new Z-60 draws less power than any Brazos-based part AMD has launched before. Some of you may remember that AMD launched a tablet processor last year, but the Z-01 -- codenamed Desna -- was an ordinary Brazos core that binned well enough to run within a lower power envelope. It was more a proof-of-concept chip, meant to demonstrate that AMD could, and would, compete in the tablet market. Hondo, in contrast, is a new...

Scouts have bumpy landing http://tinyurl.com/2ron93 Web Posted: 03/18/2007 01:39 AM CDT Chuck McCollough Express-News Three Boy Scouts and their pilot walked away from a hard landing at Hondo Municipal Airport on Saturday after part of the plane's landing gear failed to lock in place, witnesses said. "I'm glad to be down safe. I was really scared after I saw part of the wheel fall off," said 12-year-old Eric Riegel. He and fellow scouts Nathaniel Mayberry, 13, and Kirby Vandervort, 10, all of Houston, were flying with pilot Thomas Skiles to earn their aviation merit badges. Dozens of other Scouts were...

July 7, 2006 -- Hondo scored with the 'Stros last night but was cut down with those lovable losers from Chicago, which left his accounts payable holding at 770 laus. Tonight, he's bullish on 'dogs - 10 units apiece on the Orioles and Reds. * Yesterday's subway attack by a psycho with a power saw shows you have to be on guard for all kinds of tools down there . . . What are the editors of Merriam- Webster's Dictionary thinking? They added "supersize," which means "to increase considerably the size, amount, or extent of," but continue to ignore "super...