Smart cards push to reshape payments and security readers
Major U.S. card issuers roll out embedded microchip cards promising online shopping security, ID and payments. Visa MasterCard and Microsoft back the format with free readers and attractive rates as industry bets on fraud reduction and wider adoption amid rising online shoppers and broader card uses.
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Nilsan Report
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Asteroid crater clues challenge dinosaur extinction story
Scientists at the American Geophysical Union meeting contest the idea that Chicxulub debris alone killed dinosaurs. Drilling around the Yucatan crater suggests vaporized carbonates and sulfates released atmospheric chemicals forming sulfuric acid and carbon dioxide, possibly triggering a global crisis beyond nuclear winter theories. Researchers plan deeper drilling to test atmospheric chemistry effects and broader asteroid impact lessons for Earth.
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