Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ), the owner of Compaq, just announced that it is going to spin off its personal computer business.

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We all fall prey to this, I write about it all the time and have few readers who are mathematicians who read my blog and agree that today with using computer algorithms to spin numbers that math is not 100% reliable any more on proving accuracy.

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No, scratch that, the PC company that HP might spin off might revive the TouchPad computer.

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Spin the globe, looking for elite computer-programming talent.

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That opens up the possibility of putting virtual objects into the real world, letting you "pick up" a computer-generated 3D architectural model and spin it around in your hand, for instance, or gesture to control a virtual display appearing on an actual wall.

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When computer models gave him the power to spin up winds on planets of the mind, his first big topic was a study of the net effects of smoggy pollutants in the atmosphere, which cool the planet down, and the carbon dioxide which warms it up.

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Northwestern University spin-out QuesTek Innovations has demonstrated impressive atom-by-atom computer modeling techniques to engineer alloys at the nanoscale and reduce the use of critical elements.

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