Game Rant writer for over 3 years! Trevor is a lifelong gamer who loves all types of games, but especially RPGs, platformers, and Fortnite. Ever since popping in the cartridge for The Legend of Zelda: ...

One of the problems with traditional magnetic storage has always been that, because it’s written with magnetic fields, it can be wiped by those fields too. That makes for a pretty unstable ...

Storing information through magnetic patterns was first demonstrated to record audio. Since then, this concept has been applied for different products like floppy disks, audio/video tapes, hard disks, ...

Do you remember the magnetic card spoofer in Terminator 2? It was a bit farfetched because apparently the device could be swiped through a reader and magically come up with working account numbers and ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Toby Walters is a financial writer, investor, and lifelong learner. He has a passion for ...

Chip Cards vs. Magnetic Stripes: Is One More Likely to Fall for Scams? Think back to the last time you paid for something at a store. Did you swipe your card, or did you dip it into the terminal? The ...

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 ...

The Boomsday Project, Hearthstone's latest expansion, is only a few weeks away from leaving the lab. More substantial card reveals for the set won't start until July 23, but Blizzard has been whetting ...