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The most learn story this week was about, get this: a DeLorean. As within the Again to the Future automotive. Yep. The brief model: the lately revived model launched photographs of the Alpha 5, an electrical car inbuilt homage to the DeLorean of yesteryear, full with these signature gull-winged doorways. Particulars like worth/availability are nonetheless below wraps, however for the curious: the corporate says it’ll do zero to 60 in 2.99 seconds — and, maybe extra importantly, zero to 88 in 4.35 seconds.

different stuff

What else occurred this week? Right here’s a number of the stuff folks had been studying about most:

WWDC rumbles: Apple’s annual Worldwide Developer Convention kicks off on Monday, June 6, and rumors about what is perhaps introduced are already spreading quick. Brian Heater has a roundup masking what he expects to see on the occasion, and Sarah Perez took a deep dive into what’s seemingly altering in iOS.

Sheryl Sandberg steps down at Meta: After 14 years within the position, Sheryl Sandberg will now not be the COO of the corporate previously referred to as Fb. Meta chief progress officer Javier Olivan will shift into the COO position; Sandberg will stay on Meta’s board of administrators.

Amazon kills the Cloud Cam: Again in 2017, Amazon launched just a little sensible residence digital camera referred to as the Cloud Cam. Then it just about instantly purchased two sensible digital camera makers — Blink and Ring. Half a decade later, Amazon is ditching Cloud Cam in favor of the latter two. Cloud Cams will cease working on the finish of this yr; current Cloud Cam customers will get a free Blink Mini digital camera as a alternative, together with a free yr of the Blink Plus plan. For those who’re utilizing a Cloud Cam, be sure you again up your saved movies earlier than they disappear in December.

Amazon experiments with “invite-based” ordering to combat scalpers: For those who’re a traditional individual simply attempting to casually purchase one thing like a PlayStation 5 or an Xbox Sequence X on Amazon, you’ve in all probability felt the frustration of being beat to the punch by a billion bots. Amazon introduced this week that it’ll roll out “invite-based” orders for choose high-demand objects; you’ll “request an invite” after which Amazon will test issues like buy historical past/account creation date to find out who will get first dibs.

Extra layoffs: It was but one other brutal week of tech layoffs — 8% of Carbon Well being; 14% of Loom; 10% of the Winklevoss twins’ crypto platform Gemini; 25% of social app IRL; 10% of TomTom and extra.

And Tesla, too: First got here phrase that Elon Musk would require “everybody at Tesla” to be within the workplace (somewhat than distant) for a “minimal of 40 hours” per week. Then got here phrase of a company-wide hiring freeze, and plans to chop as much as 10% of Tesla’s salaried workforce.

audio stuff

You’re keen on TechCrunch in your eyes — how about TechCrunch in your ears? We’ve acquired a bunch of super-good podcasts, the newest of which Matt Burns summed up right here.

Instance A: the TechCrunch Reside podcast, the place this week Burnsy talked with the CEO and lead investor of Olive — a Columbus, Ohio, firm that pivoted 27 instances and is now value billions.

added stuff

We’ve a paywalled part of our web site referred to as TechCrunch+. It solely prices a couple of bucks a month and it’s filled with excellent stuff! From this week, for instance:

VCs on the state of crypto: Just about all the large cryptocurrencies have spent the final 6 months in a downward spiral. How are traders feeling in regards to the house general? Jacquelyn Melinek checked in with a handful of VCs for his or her ideas.

How the Biden admin may energy up photo voltaic/wind tasks: “There’s an thought floating within the ether (or at the least in my ether) that there’s sufficient sunny federal land in Nevada to energy all the United States with photo voltaic,” writes Tim De Chant. “So why don’t now we have extra photo voltaic and wind on public lands?”

Even Stripe isn’t proof against a altering market: Fintech firms are getting hit onerous by the downturn; Alex Wilhelm takes a have a look at how/why “even the most important and best-known non-public fintech firms are affected by embarrassing revaluations.”