Since Hewlett-Packard announced that it was exploring options to sell, spin off or overhaul its giant PC and consumer hardware division to focus the company on cloud and business solutions, observers have been speculating about its possible futures. Samsung just foreclosed on one of them.

“To put to rest any speculation on this issue, I would like to definitively state that Samsung Electronics will not acquire Hewlett-Packard’s PC Business,” Samsung CEO Geosing Choi wrote in a note sent to Wired.com:

Hewlett-Packard is the global leader in the PC business with sales of 40 million units last...

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Even though she carries a famous name, the fiercely shy and formidably knowledgeable Elizabeth Avedon has forged her own path in the photography industry: curating galleries, spearheading art direction on multinational ad campaigns and designing books and exhibitions for some of the most successful international photographers of the 20th century.

Avedon’s long career has been among photography greats. Straight from college, she was recommended to Richard Avedon by her favorite Parsons instructor Marvin Israel — painter, art director and Diane Arbus’ lover.

Avedon is now an...