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Mobile Minutes: Google’s Trusted Contacts; Amazon grocery store, Uber AI; Microsoft’s nicer chatbot

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The search giant’s goal: getting you out of sketchy situations with an app that can ping certain people your exact location.
Read more at CNET

Amazon opens line-free grocery store in challenge to supermarkets
Amazon.com Inc said on Monday it has opened a brick-and-mortar grocery store in Seattle without lines or checkout counters, kicking off new competition with supermarket chains.
Read more at Reuters

Uber bets on artificial intelligence with acquisition and new lab
SAN FRANCISCO — Uber envisions a future in which a fleet of vehicles can make the most complex maneuvers while carting passengers around without the help of a driver. To achieve that, cars will need to get a whole lot smarter.
Read more at New York Times