Clean energy trucks, excavators, street sweepers drive toward zero emissions

Related: Electric Era, a Seattle startup developing electric vehicle charging stations, raised $11.5 million. 

A $45 million boost to Seattle waterfront: Melinda French Gates, MacKenzie Scott, the Diller-Von Furstenberg Family Foundation, and Expedia Group are leading the funding effort for a project that will connect and revitalize parks along Elliott Bay. Read more. 

At a summit in Seattle, DARPA says it wants to help the tech world "reinvent domestic microelectronics manufacturing" — which has lost ground to companies in Asia over the past few decades. Read more. 

Tech Moves: Ryan Bruels, a Seattle-area tech vet who helped lead technology efforts at Starbucks, joined San Francisco ed-tech startup Atypical AI and will build a Seattle-based engineering team. 

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• Is LinkedIn cool? As other social platforms are going through an identity crisis, the Microsoft-owned network is benefiting. (Bloomberg)

• Some Amazon employees are choosing to quit rather than comply with the company’s new relocation requirements. (CNBC)

• Microsoft Excel is getting Python integration. (ZDNet)

• Zoom’s CEO explains why he’s asking employees back to the office. (Insider)