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“I was confident that I had finally found a person who would love, respect, and take care of this bit of history.” Christopher Zach of Baltimore is among computer enthusiasts who sold or donated vintage items to Paul Allen and his Living Computers Museum + Labs who are now concerned that their contributions could be auctioned off, scattered, discarded, or lost forever with the museum’s permanent closure. Read more.

Seattle bill payment company Doxo fired back at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that the company used deceptive ads and misleading web design techniques to deceive consumers. Read more.


U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell and other VIPs cut the ribbon
and got a peek inside Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellite manufacturing factory in Kirkland, Wash., on Thursday, where thousands of spacecraft are to be manufactured for a global broadband network. Read more.

Tech Moves: Microsoft’s chief brand officer is leaving, and so is the chief marketing officer for Xbox. The software giant is also adding two new marketing execs. Read more.

Microsoft and Amazon are teaming up to launch a new Xbox gaming app on Amazon Fire TV devices. Read more.

Another logistics startup emerges in Seattle: Led by former Amazon and Flexport execs, Freightmate raised a $650,000 pre-seed round to fuel growth of its AI-powered software for freight forwarding companies. Read more.

Amazon reached a $2 trillion market capitalization for the first time ever, joining an exclusive — and short — list of U.S. tech companies to achieve the milestone. Read more.

Ezra, a cancer-screening tech startup using full-body MRI scans to detect disease, opened two locations in the Seattle area. Read more.

Next-gen battery startup Sila raised $375 million to help fund the completion of a manufacturing facility in Eastern Washington. Read more.


GeekWire’s Todd Bishop is back in Spokane,
working on the next installment in our “GeekWire on the Road” series from the Inland Northwest, taking in the scenery and attending the LaunchPad Inland Northwest Summer Kick-Off event in Liberty Lake later today. See his post on LinkedIn for more photos and details, and contact him at todd@geekwire.com.

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