Geek Pride Day, Back the Bid and Facebook gives back some control over PI

Today is Geek Pride day, so claim your right to be a geek or a nerd. Or not.

Microsoft edging Google out of iPad-like devices. Taiwanese laptop-maker Micro-Star International (MSI) is now the second major Taiwanese vendor to dump an anticipated Google-based tablet launch at Computex in favour of one with Microsoft Windows 7.

Want to stand up and be counted in support of the bid for the FIFA World Cup to be held in England in 2018? Put your face on the official supporter’s flag and back the bid! The flag was created using Silverlight Deep Zoom by the way…

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg pledges easier privacy by giving people back simple, easy to use control over their personal information. Will it stop the 13,500 Facebook members committed to deleting their profiles on 31 May 2010…?

Paul Allen-backed researchers launch 3-D map of the brain. The Allen Human Brain Atlas creates a searchable 3-D map of gene activity in the brain documenting which genes are expressed, or “turned on” where.

Published by Sara Allison

Sara is the editor of Ubelly - when not heads down scouring Ubelly articles for typos (and not always catching them), she's scouting for new writing talent. Give her a shout @SaraAllison if you've got something to say about development/design and want to be heard.

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