Do magnets damage your credit cards, potentially causing payment issues? Here's what to know about about magnetic risks and how new EMV chip technology protects against demagnetization.

Fold a 12- by 4 1/2-inch piece of scrapbook paper or cardstock into quarters to create an accordion-style card. 6. Use a glue dot to attach a cupcake to each of the card panels.

To the particles, the magnetic stripe looks like a series of magnets lined up. Long magnets represent 0s and short magnets 1s. With each bit the orientation of the magnet changes, something like ...

Mastercard, for example, says that, "by 2029, no new Mastercard credit or debit cards will be issued with a magnetic stripe," although its prepaid cards in the U.S. and Canada "are currently ...

Mastercard is phasing out the use of magnetic stripes on its credit and debit cards over the next decade. They’ll start to disappear in 2024 in regions where EMV chips are more common, and will ...

Samsung has just released a line of memory cards that are guaranteed to survive being submerged in water for up to 24 hours, being run over by a 3,200 pound vehicle, or resist a magnetic current ...

In helical magnets, the directions of the atomic magnetic moments are ordered in a spiral. The right- or left-handedness of the spiral, called chirality, could be utilized to memorize the information.

KBank, the country's second largest lender by assets, estimates 335,634 of magnetic-stripe cards are due to expire this year, 1.02 million next year and another 992,713 cards in 2021. KEYWORDS Cards ...