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xxx The feature allows new iPhones to conduct supported NFC transactions without the assistance of iOS. The specs for the iPhone XS list “Express Cards with power reserve” under all models. From New iPhones can conduct certain NFC transactions even when iOS is not running. xxx

xxx “September 13, 1968, the German engineers Juergen Dethloff (1924-2002) and Helmut Groettrup (1916-1981) filed a patent in Austria for their idea of an ‘identification circuit’.” From “First Chip Card Patent Filed 50 Years Ago on September 13, 1968”. xxx

For the first decade or so, it was far from clear whether the credit card was continue to exist as a product at all, and as late as 1970 there were people predicting that banks would abandon the concept completely. What changed everything was technology: the introduction of the magnetic stripe and Visa’s BASE IContinue reading “Transit as Weathervane”

xxx We can see that we are going from 24.25GHz, right up to 86GHz. At this frequencies our wavelengths are 1.2 cm to 0.3cm. Our antennas will thus be between 0.6 cm and 0.15 cm long. As we move up 86GHz our capacity for data will move from just 240Mbps to 8.6Gbps. This is fromContinue reading “Get Ready for the Greatest Change in Our Digital World Since the Start of the Internet … Meet the…”

xxx It was all made possible by modern communications – the telegram, the phone, the telex, the fax, the email – and it allowed the world’s richest people to avoid the responsibilities of citizenship From The real Goldfinger: the London banker who broke the world | News | The Guardian. xxx

xxx Robinhood order data is used by large institutions to allow them to profit on order information ahead of retail customers, sometimes called “front running.” From Robinhood Crypto: The fine print behind ‘free’ crypto trading – The Block. xxx

xxx Clearly, we need identity custodians: an entity we can trust and call upon if we have a problem. Somebody who is able to give a key back when it’s lost. Ideally, we should be able to choose which identity custodian to use and switch as often as wanted. From The problem with self-sovereign identity:Continue reading “The problem with self-sovereign identity: We can’t trust people”

xxx Through Facebook groups (essentially forums), extremists can build large audiences. There are many examples of groups that feature anti-Muslim or antisemitic content daily, in an environment which, because critics are removed from the groups, normalises these hateful views. From Why I am seeking to stamp out online echo chambers of hate | Lucy PowellContinue reading “Why I am seeking to stamp out online echo chambers of hate | Lucy Powell | Technology | The Guardian”

xxx   According to the latest British Retail Consortium’s (BRC) annual payments survey, cards were used to pay for £277.1 billion worth of goods in 2017, accounting for 76% of retail sales volume. Meanwhile, cash continued its decline both as a share of retail transactions (down 0.5%) and value of sales (down 1.2%), where itContinue reading “POST Please stop the nonsense about interchange caps helping consumers”

xxx Just loading the main British Airways website spins up around 20 different scripts and loading the booking subpage bumps that to 30. While 30 scripts might not sound like much, many of these are minified scripts spanning thousands of lines of script. From The British Airways Breach: How Magecart Claimed 380,000 Victims. xxx