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Gas?! Where we're going, we don't need gas

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Gas?! Where we're going, we don't need gas

Greg Kumparak
Sun, June 5, 2022, 5:16 AM·4 min read
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Hello all! Welcome back to Week in Review, the newsletter where we recap some of the top stories to cross TechCrunch over the last 7 days. If you want it in your inbox every Saturday, sign up here.

The most read story this week was about, get this: a DeLorean. As in the Back to the Future car. Yep. The short version: the recently revived brand released images of the Alpha 5, an electric vehicle built in homage to the DeLorean of yesteryear, complete with those signature gull-winged doors. Details like price/availability are still under wraps, but for the curious: the company says it'll do zero to 60 in 2.99 seconds — and, perhaps more importantly, zero to 88 in 4.35 seconds.

other stuff

What else happened this week? Here's some of the stuff people were reading about most:

WWDC rumbles: Apple's annual Worldwide Developer Conference kicks off on Monday, June 6, and rumors about what might be announced are already spreading fast. Brian Heater has a roundup covering what he expects to see at the event, and Sarah Perez took a deep dive into what's likely changing in iOS.

Sheryl Sandberg steps down at Meta: After 14 years in the role, Sheryl Sandberg will no longer be the COO of the company formerly known as Facebook. Meta chief growth officer Javier Olivan will shift into the COO role; Sandberg will remain on Meta's board of directors.

Amazon kills the Cloud Cam: Back in 2017, Amazon launched a little smart home camera called the Cloud Cam. Then it pretty much immediately bought two smart camera makers — Blink and Ring. Half a decade later, Amazon is ditching Cloud Cam in favor of the latter two. Cloud Cams will stop working at the end of this year; existing Cloud Cam users will get a free Blink Mini camera as a replacement, along with a free year of the Blink Plus plan. If you're using a Cloud Cam, make sure you back up your saved videos before they disappear in December.

Amazon experiments with "invite-based" ordering to fight scalpers: If you're a normal person just trying to casually buy something like a PlayStation 5 or an Xbox Series X on Amazon, you've probably felt the disappointment of being beat to the punch by a billion bots. Amazon announced this week that it'll roll out "invite-based" orders for select high-demand items; you'll "request an invitation" and then Amazon will check things like purchase history/account creation date to determine who gets first dibs.


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