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Amazon’s high-tech mini-mart heads to suburbia: Away from the urban setting where it made its name, Amazon Go has gone to Mill Creek, Wash., to compete on a roadway dotted with gas stations and strip malls. The first suburban location for the convenience format with “Just Walk Out” technology brings a larger footprint with more features, including a made-to-order food counter. GeekWire got an inside look.

Bezos takes aim at Musk’s Twitter takeover: “Did the Chinese government just gain a bit of leverage over the town square?” the Amazon founder asked in a tweet calling out the Tesla chief’s connections to China. Read more.

This startup is helping to cut the BS: Modern Electron is teaming up with the Tulalip Tribes, a Western Washington dairy, and an environmental effort to convert cow manure into cleaner-burning hydrogen fuel and carbon that can be applied as fertilizer. Read more.

You’re on mute — new study analyzes virtual meetings: Seattle startup Read measured engagement and sentiment of participants in millions of video meeting minutes. Among the findings: 50% of participants arrive late; 11% don’t have video or audio on. Read more.

Banking app for teens: Seattle fintech startup Copper has attracted more than 800,000 users and just raised $29 million to expand to investing.

Tech Moves: Netflix product leader lands at Google; YouTube CEO to join Code.org board; and more personnel moves.

Ex-Snowflake CEO joins RelationalAI board: The Bay Area startup building “knowledge graphs” for intelligent data apps announced a $75 million funding round and added Bob Muglia to its board. 

Thanks for reading, and have a great day. — GeekWire managing editor Taylor Soper, taylor@geekwire.com, and GeekWire reporter Kurt Schlosser, kurt@geekwire.com.
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