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A chip and a PIN: The future of credit cards

An EMV chip embedded in a credit card — a worldwide standard for point-of-sale transactions that the U.S. market is woefully behind on. (Mastercard) A series of hacks at two major retailers over the Christmas shopping season has so startled…

Why did Obama use the N-word to describe his grandfather?

“My image of Onyango, faint as it was, had always been of an autocratic man—a cruel man, perhaps. But I had also imagined him an independent man, a man of his people, opposed to white rule… What Granny had told…