China slams Google

The Chinese government has reacted angrily to Google's decision to shift its Chinese language search operations to Hong Kong and stop censoring results, reveals Computing.co.uk.

The move has pleased human rights groups, but has upset the Chinese government, which has described the search giant's actions as "totally wrong".

A report on the Chinese government Web site said Google had "violated its written promise", and was wrong to insinuate that state agents were to blame for the recent attacks on its systems.

Mozilla has released Firefox 3.6.2, almost a week early, after security issues were found in earlier versions, reports the BBC.

Firefox 3.6.2 was originally due to unveil at the end of March, but is available to download now from the Mozilla Web site.

The security hole had led the German government to issue a warning about Firefox 3.6.

Neurologists at the Washington University School of Medicine say a brain scanning technique, known as resting-state functional connectivity (FC), could help clinicians identify and even predict the effects of brain injuries such as strokes, writes CNet.

Originally developed to study how brain networks let various parts of the brain collaborate, FC also appears to enable scientists to link differences in harm done to brain networks to changes in patient impairment.

"Clinicians who treat brain injury need new markers of brain function that can predict the effects of injury, which helps us determine treatment and assess its effects," says Maurizio Corbetta, professor of radiology and neurobiology at the university. "This study shows FC scans are a potentially useful way to get that kind of information."

Owners of Polaroid's classic SX-70 camera will this week be able to buy the first of a new batch of instant films for the model, courtesy of The Impossible Project, says The Register.

Since Polaroid stopped production of instant film back in 2008, the tech has until now been available only from existing stocks and through Fujifilm, which offers a few professional products and dedicated packs for its Instax camera range.

The Netherlands-based Impossible Project, headed by Dr Florian Kaps, has invested 2.3 million euros to develop the PX 100 monochrome film packs - the first of a range of products which will include a B&W PX 600 release in the coming weeks, and a colour film in the summer.