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Norway’s BankID Mobile App Gets an Upgrade
On March 11, BankID, Norway’s largest digital identity provider, launched a new solution for customers who use the BankID mobile app. Users can now...
Pre-2020 Oman Banknotes Not Legal Tender by end of 2024
All Oman banknotes issued before 2020 will cease to be legal tender and will be demonetized on December 31, 2024, according to the Central...
Famous Females on Banknotes
On International Women's Day, we bring you our popular article.
Have you ever heard of Tawhida Ben Cheikh? Most likely you haven’t, and I don’t...
The Crucial Role Holography Plays In Securing Government ID Documents
In an era marked by technological innovation, the safeguarding of personal identities has become a paramount concern for governments worldwide. As the frequency of...
Free Resource: Keesing’s State-Specific REAL ID At-a-Glance Guide
REAL ID-compliant driver’s licenses and ID cards are now the real deal in the United States. If it’s your job to check the driver’s...
Eastern Caribbean States’ New $50 Commemorative Note
The Caribbean state of Grenada will soon celebrate the 50th anniversary of its independence from Britain with a new $50 commemorative banknote that depicts...
Kenya Kicks Off Digital Identity Pilot Program [Update]
Update: Just a month after Kenya launched the rollout its new digital identity pilot program in November 2023, the country’s High Court ordered the process...
Pre-2021 Liberian Banknotes No Longer Legal Tender by 3/31/24
All Liberian banknotes dated before 2021 will cease to be legal tender on March 31, 2024, according to the Central Bank of Liberia (CBL).
The bank’s...
Coming Soon: 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...
Greece Has Begun Issuing a New Generation Passport
Greece has launched a New Generation Passport, with a new design and advanced security features. The Hellenic Police Headquarters, National Passport and Secure Document...
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...