Monthly Archives: December 2021
New Romanian Banknote Honors First Female Army Officer
On 1 December 2021, the National Bank of Romania (NBR) put into circulation a new 20-lei banknote. It is the first Romanian banknote to feature a...
Azerbaijan Introduces Commemorative Banknote
The Republic of Azerbaijan introduced a commemorative 500-Manat banknote on 4 November 2021 in honor of the “anniversary of the historic Victory of the...
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...