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In the cards.
If something is in the cards, it is bound to occur, it is going to happen, or it is inevitable.
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Embedded in the card is a silicon chip and a tiny transmitter.
There are probably additional symbolic references embedded in the card paintings that are unrecoverable now, although you could take a punt on the knave poking out of the table drawer in the Washington Boy as hinting at a certain rascality.
Each time a customer swiped a credit or debit card, the software stole the information embedded in the card's magnetic stripe.
Smart cards contain an integrated circuit embedded in the card (this is the reason they are sometimes also called Integrated Circuit Cards (ICCs)) that is a miniature, dedicated computer running an operating system designed for this purpose.
As you can see in the illustration, the new reader looks very similar to the old one — the difference being that it reads the microchip that is embedded in the card instead of the mag stripe.
For now, it looks like these devices — which operate on the EMV standard (jointly developed by Europay, Visa and Mastercard) and scan a chip embedded in the card for the duration of the transaction process — will require a signature, not a PIN number.
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Semiconductor companies Infineon, STMicroelectronics and Motorola are the top three makers of the chips embedded in the cards.
So, Intuit (like the others) has created a card reader with a keypad for users to enter PINs that correspond with the chips embedded in the cards to authenticate users.
Unlike other dongle-based mobile payment services like Square and PayPal's Here which use a card's swipe strip for processing, iZettle has focused on transactions (each charged a flat 2.75% commission on MasterCard, Visa and Diners Club; 3.75 for AmEx) using chips embedded in the cards: chips are now ubiquitous in Europe and are considered more tamper-proof than the strips.
After all, it's not like the technology to significantly reduce credit card fraud doesn't exist: it's known in the industry as "chip-and-pin" (in reference to the chips embedded in the cards and the three digit numbers, not signatures, required to use them) or smartcards, and they've been used all over the world for more than a decade.
A small microprocessor chip embedded in the smart card stores encypted information.
More suggestions(15)
embedded in the sheets
embedded in the promise
embedded in the lining
embedded in the floor
embedded in the population
embedded in the law
embedded in the team
embedded in the culture
embedded in the system
embedded in the rock
embedded in the game
embedded in the structure
embedded in the organisation
embedded in the way
embedded in the flesh
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