Monthly Archives: October 2019
Kuwait introduces new visa regulations
Kuwait’s Interior Ministry have issued new residency by-laws allowing visit visas to be transferred to residency visas in many cases.
GDN Online reports the new...
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GoCrypto has eye on rest of Europe
GoCrypto is celebrating an important milestone; achieving a presence in more than 500 stores across Slovenia and Croatia.
Coin Telegraph reports the crypto payment infrastructure...
Money is going digital faster than thought
Bermuda and Iceland are the latest countries to approve electronic money institutions to authorise the issuance of e-money.
Forbes reports Bermuda will use e-money platform...
Taiwan remains in US visa waiver programme
Taiwan will remain in the American visa waiver programme (VWP), the East Asian state’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) announced.
The conformation came in a...
Zim’s banknote printing could fuel hyperinflation
Zimbabwe has started printing new banknotes to ease the massive cash shortage in the country.
Economists, however, warn that the printing of cash might further...
EU says no to Russian passport issued to residents of Donbas
Passports issued in occupied Donbas to Ukrainian citizens will not be recognised by the European Union (EU).
The EU announced this in a statement on...
Brexit: Will your passport work?
Concerns about what will happen to European Union (EU) passports after 31 October are widespread as D-Day for Brexit quickly approaches.
British passports will get...
New banknote for Bulgaria with ‘modern protection’
The Bulgarian National Bank (BNB) will put a new 50-leva banknote in circulation starting 1 November.
The Sofia Globe reports it will be the second...
China’s cryptocurrency ‘raises privacy concerns’
When Facebook announced its plans for a cryptocurrency, it said its goal was to reinvent money for the internet age and “promote financial inclusion.”
Now...
ADA-Compliant Mobile ID App Raises the Bar on Accessibility
Editor’s note: PR Newswire released the following press release on September 26. 2024.
IDEMIA Public Security, the leading provider of convenient and trusted biometric-based solutions, reinforces...
Advanced Generative AI: The Latent Diffusion Model
To conclude his series on advanced Generative AI topics, Ravi Das explores the Latent Diffusion Model—how it works and the advantages it offers.
The “Latent...
New 100- and 200-Krone Updated Danish Banknotes
The Danmarks Nationalbank continues to update its 2009 Series of banknotes. The first of the upgraded banknotes, called the 2009A Series, was the new...
Burkina Faso’s New Biometric Passport Drops ECOWAS Logo
The West African country of Burkina Faso launched a new biometric passport in early September, modernizing its security features while also making a bold...
Advanced Generative AI: The DALL-E-2 Algorithm
In this instalment of his series on advanced topics in Generative AI, expert Ravi Das explores a cutting-edge solution known as the DALL-E-2 algorithm,...