As a communist state, the Chinese people are often denied freedoms that other democratic countries can take for granted.

The internet is a buzzing outlet for freedom of speech, and is a pinnacle of the free world. The Chinese administration has recognised the internet as a threat to their communist rule.

Many sites have been blocked, like those that discuss freedom of speech, and promote human rights.

The reason for withholding access to the BBC’s China site is probably because the administration controls many news sources within China and they don’t want the news from foreign democratic states influencing the Chinese citizens.

It is not a coincidence that this has happened just before they host the Olympics, it seems the almighty Chinese government are people pleasing on a socio-economic level.

The Large Hadron Collider located on the French-Swiss border is the world’s largest scientific experiment.

Scientists working for CERN, the corporation undertaking this experiment have managed to cool the apparatus near absolute zero.

The aim of the experiment is to simulate and recreate the conditions of deep space, i.e. at the moment of creation.

The reason for the extremely low temperatures is that, in deep space it is obviously very cold, so to get an accurate simulation, these conditions need to be recreated.

The machine will shortly begin firing particles at close to the speed of light, when these particles collide, a new particle should be created, and this will be called the ‘God particle’.

The problem is, scientists are unsure how this particle will behave. Some say it will create a black hole!!

Firefox 3 was released recently, after vigorous testing, me and my colleagues have decided IT’S BRILLIANT!

It has taken 36 months to develop, and for a non-profit organisation, that is rather impressive.

Firefox 3 Boasts, 3 times faster page loading, compared to Firefox 2 and 7 times faster than Microsoft IE.

If we put this into perspective, Microsoft is a world leader, with Billions of Dollars of capital to invest in new products and Mozilla is a small non-profit organisation.

It just goes to show that monopolies can be beaten.

First, there was the cardboard box in the kitchenette for old cans and bottles. Then, the plastic bin under everyone’s desk for old print jobs and newspapers. Will the next trend in office recycling be a Dumpster for old computers?

A growing movement to recycle PCs and other electronics has the European Parliament examining ways to keep those machines from ending up in landfills and posing pollution threats.

Computer makers worry that government solutions focused on redesign, recycling and disposal will raise the expense of doing business. This will inevitably lead to an increase in the price tags of their products at a time when they can ill afford such costly changes.

Regardless of how it gets done, some form of wide scale recycling appears inevitable. The computer industry acknowledges that its products are becoming obsolete faster than it is putting new machines on the market. Leading businessess and consumers store tons of aging equipment until agreement can be reached on a way to dispose of them without doing grave harm to the world’s environment.

The Print Space has extended their do-it-yourself photographic printing process to the Internet. theprintspace.com will be the first online service to incorporate an easy to use professional color management process. It enables accurate soft proofing of images by clients on their own systems using bespoke print profiles.

The Print Space originated as Europe’s first walk-in DIY professional photographic printing lab. They were launched in 2007 and based in Shoredfich, occupying two floors of a 4,000 square foot area comprising of exhibition space, for-hire retouching and scanning booths, and large format printers. Their philosophy is to equip the customer with the knowledge and resources to get creative with high-spec professional imaging equipment.

theprintsource.com acts like a professional standard, fully color-managed print studio on your desktop by presenting a web interface for its creative print process. The site offers online articles and also face-to-face consultations from in-house color management and print technicians. A key feature of the website is the color management and profiling tutorials, which are available to stream or download.