Monthly Archives: July 2022
Iran Issues New 10,000- and 20,000-Rial Banknotes
The Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran (CBI) put two new banknotes into circulation on 13 July 2022. The 10,000-Rial and 20,000-Rial...
Mobile App Developers’ Best Practices & Top Mistakes (Part 3)
The first two articles in this series focused on the rapid growth and common pitfalls of mobile app development, as well as the top...
Malawi issues new, high denomination banknote: 5000 Kwacha
The Reserve Bank of Malawi has introduced a 5,000 Kwacha banknote, reflecting the need for a higher denomination in the country’s economy. According to...
The Thickest Passports in History
A regular passport nowadays usually has 32 pages. ICAO defines this standard (recommendations), and so is the standardized passport size of 125mm x 88mm...
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Is Issuing New e-Passport [Update]
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia began issuing a new electronic passport on 14 July 2022. Officials say the new ePassport is designed with advanced...
Mobile App Developers’ Best Practices & Top Mistakes (Part 2)
As the first article in this series explained, the mobile app market is growing exponentially. However, continued success of this market depends on app...
The Maldives Introduces a New National Currency Symbol
On July 3, 2022, the Maldives Monetary Authority (MMA) introduced a new national currency symbol, according to News Notafilia.
The new symbol of the national...
ID.me Milestone: Nearly 12.5 Million US Military Users
The ID.me secure digital identity network, which provides identity proofing, authentication, and group affiliation verification across public and private sectors, is celebrating a significant milestone: Approximately...
Think Digital Payments Will Kill Off Cash? Not so fast
Digital payment systems have grown tremendously over the past several years—a movement that was only accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. One of the myriad...
Mobile App Developers’ Best Practices & Top Mistakes (Part 1)
As the Remote Workforce now takes a permanent foothold here in the United States, there is going to be one common denominator: People will...
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...