Data privacy is a particular concern for German car makers

Beyond Apple and Google, other tech companies are working to get their offerings incorporated into car systems

Samsung Electronics Co

Microsoft Corp. is also edging

The launch of self-driving vehicles in the coming years could bring even more screens into the car, on and off the dashboard, as passengers get more time to work, shop or watch movies on the road.

AMP aims to ensure that web content loads just as instantly, and looks just as sleek as it would in a native app.

This is about making sure the World Wide Web is not the World Wide Wait

The hope, among publishers, is that faster, cleaner content on the web will drive engagement. Attention spans on the web are short, after all, and there are plenty of other articles to read.

Google is opening this format to all publishers

It will also be interesting to see how Facebook responds to the news

While Facebook is onboarding publishers one by one

But now, more than ever, these platforms are not only determining what news matters to us, they’re determining the best way to present and publish it, as well

digital currency will bring the same safety and ease of monetary transfer that the M-Pesa has to Kenyans to the roughly 40% of Ecuadoreans who don’t have access to a bank account. Plus, it offers Ecuadoreans the opportunity to start saving

What is increasingly evident is that the traditional role of banks is being reimagined by non-banking software and hardware companies

Bitcoin will increasingly enter the mainstream and challenge the traditional rails of finance along which money has moved.

Goods of all kinds can reach customers in places that just didn’t make financial sense in the past.

This leads to the increased competition for all kinds of things, especially for information-based products and services that the United States leans on for much of its economy. Digital currencies, Bitcoin in particular, will lower economic barriers.

It might be different kinds of loans, payroll and other small business services and specialized accounts that serve specific needs and populations.

The idea is to produce skin more quickly and easily using what is essentially an assembly line developed with Organovo, a San Diego bioprinting company.

L’Oreal already

produce its patented skin, called Episkin

Organovo pioneered the process of bioprinting human tissues, most notably creating a 3-D-printed liver system

In concept, it’s the same idea of programming the 3-D printer to print architecture on an X-Y-Z axis