Prolonged exposure to magnets can affect the functionality of your credit card. Cards with magnetic strips can also become demagnetized due to dirt, scratches and other damage. EMV chip technology has ...

Mastercard last week announced that its cards will no longer be issued with the magnetic stripe by 2029, which will presumably include Apple Card. The magnetic stripe was an early 1960s technology ...

Mastercard announced that all of its debit and credit cards will lose the iconic magnetic stripe starting in 2024. Various advancements in payment technology have made the magnetic stripe unnecessary.

First, we said goodbye to the floppy disk drive. Then, the Sony Walkman was unceremoniously buried. Now, it's time to prepare a eulogy to a gadget that's been an even bigger part of the American ...

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If you have a credit card issued by Mastercard, you will get a replacement card in the next few years. The company says it is removing the magnetic stripe on the back of cards containing payment ...

Eventually, one day, your fancy physical titanium Apple Card will no longer have a magnetic stripe. If you’re familiar with the headache of putting it through the wrong way the first time since the ...

[anfractuosus] has been reading magnetic stripe card… optically! While hackers routinely read and write stripe cards, this is the first time we’ve reported on optically imaging and decoding data from ...