credit cards
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The Apple Card Won’t Change Your Life, But It Will Hook You On Apple Pay
When you plunk down the Apple Card to split a bill, it makes a satisfying clank. The snow-white card with its silver trimmings is impossible to ignore ” partly because few cards are white, and partly because of that clanking noise. One of your friends will probably pick it up, turn it in their hands…
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How An Expired Bank Card Upended My Life
As Gizmodo’s deputy editor I never expected to become the physical embodiment of ‘old man yells at cloud’ for anything tech related. And yet a few weeks ago I became my own worst nightmare. My bank card expired, and a replacement didn’t arrive for a month. Life became extremely difficult, extremely quickly. I subsequently found…
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Woman Gets Plastic Surgery To Escape $4.7 Million Debt, And The Story Only Gets Worse From There
China has a debt problem. More specifically, Chinese citizens are suddenly drowning in debt after the country opened the door to personal lending in 2014. Now people are borrowing money so recklessly that at least one woman literally rearranged her face in order to avoid paying back her ¥CN25 million ($4.7 million) debt. It almost…
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New Hacker-Proof RFID Chips Make Great Gifts For Paranoid Friends
Credit cards and passports are filled with microchips brimming with your personal information — and give off radio waves to any nearby sleazebag that wants to steal your identity. A new generation of those chips stands to stop hackers in their tracks.