Monthly Archives: January 2020
Plastic banknotes not so durable after all?
Nearly 50 million plastic £5 and £10 notes have been replaced since they were launched.
BBC reports that the notes were replaced due to wear...
8 countries get visa exemption extension from Vietnam
In order to reach the selected goals for tourism in Vietnam, the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT), confirmed that until the end of...
Easier travel for Belarusian citizens to the EU
It will soon be easier for Belarusian citizens to travel to the European Union.
Belarus and the EU signed the visa-facilitation agreement and the readmission...
Argentina plans ‘new family’ of banknotes
Argentina plans to develop a new banknote series featuring heroes and cultural figures instead of animals.
The South American country’s current banknote series feature animals...
Facial recognition ‘on 800 million mobiles by 2024’
A new report found that facial recognition hardware will be the fastest growing form of smartphone biometric hardware.
Juniper Research’s report says the hardware –...
South Carolina on REAL ID mission
Less than 40% of South Carolinians are expected to have a REAL ID by the 1 October deadline.
The Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) is...
EU checks on Belarusian passports security
The European Union is studying how secure the new Belarusian biometric diplomatic passports are.
Davor Bozinovic, Internal Affairs Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of Croatia,
announced...
Free 15-day online visa for Indians visiting Malaysia
The Ministry of Tourism, Art and Culture of Malaysia has introduced a 15-day free travel visa via their Electronic Travel Registration and Information (eNTRI)...
Kazakhstan launches visa-free regimen for transit passengers from China and India
According to the press office of Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, citizens of China and India, travelling through Kazakhstan, via international airports of Nur-Sultan,...
UAE introduces multiple-entry visa scheme
The United Arab Emirates launched a multiple-entry visa programme valid for 5 years for all nationalities, in order to boost tourism.
"The new tourist visa...
Upgraded Alaska Driver’s License, ID Card Coming This Fall
The Alaska Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV) recently announced that it will begin issuing upgraded driver’s license and ID cards starting in late Fall...
EES and ETIAS: the EU’s New Border Management Systems [UPDATE]
As we have previously reported, the European Union has long been planning to introduce two separate but integrated border management systems. Together, the systems...
Advanced Generative AI: General Adversarial Network
We kicked off this new AI-focused series by Cyber expert Ravi Das with an article about the Variational Autoencoder (VAE). In this second article,...
Rwanda’s New 2,000 RWF and 5,000 RWF Banknotes
The National Bank of Rwanda (BNR) has put into circulation redesigned versions of two of its banknote denominations: the 2,000 Rwanda franc (RWF) and...
Advanced Generative AI: The Variational Autoencoder
In this series of articles, author Ravi Das examines some of the more advanced topics that support Generative AI. In this first article, he...