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Moving Scroll Bar Clock Makes My Inner Web Designer Queasy

8:40AM John Herrman | On the surface, scroll clock looks like a simple visual trick: Look, it’s a clock made out of moving scroll bars! This is a marginally clever animation! Then you realise that every one of them actually works. More »
Gadgets

Eight Regrettable Tech Inventions, Regretted

7:00AM John Herrman | The history of technology is littered with great ideas, but you’ve gotta make a distinction between the ones that are truly, timelessly great, and the ones that, well, the ones that seemed good at the time. More »
Software

Giz Explains: Why Tech Standards Are Vital For Apple, You

6:20AM Matt Buchanan | Tech standards are important. They’re, well, standards. They shape the way the world works, ideally. So if you wanna influence your little world, you probably wanna shape (or maybe even create) standards. Take Apple, for example. More »
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Why You Should Care About HTML5

9:00AM John Herrman | The boring answer: because it’s going to form the underpinnings of the entire internet within a few years, and most major browsers—including Chrome, now—support it. The better answer: because it’s really cool, enabling webtoys like this, without plugins. More »