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This week the TechCrunch team threw another successful Disrupt conference, this time in New York City.\u00a020 companies took the stage at TechCrunch\u2019s Startup Battlefield, where they presented their products and took questions from our expert judges. The judges narrowed the competition down to five finalists.<\/a>\u00a0But RecordGram,\u00a0a mobile recording studio where aspiring artists can find beats, create songs and get signed, won first place in the competition.\u00a0<\/a>You can listen to all of the interviews<\/a> from our panelists including Derek Jeter, Naval Ravikant, Steve Case and many more on iTunes.<\/p>\n Disrupt was preceded by a 24-hour Hackathon, during which 750 engineers and designers got together to create a cool hack.\u00a0reVIVE<\/a>, a VR solution created by a team of high school students that can provide both a diagnostic and treatment mechanism for ADHD, won first place. You can read about all of the hacks here.\u00a0<\/a>In the mean time, here are some of the top tech stories from\u00a0this week.<\/p>\n 1. WannaCry(pt) global ransomware attack wreaks havoc on systems worldwide<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n A huge global ransomware attack<\/a> based on leaked NSA hacking tools spread like wildfire among unpatched Windows systems worldwide on Friday. Early reports suggested it was targeted at the UK\u2019s National Health Service<\/a>, leading to routine appointments being cancelled. Thousands of computers were apparently affected in Russia alone. Critics have suggested\u00a0a lack of government funding has left\u00a0the NHS\u00a0wide open\u00a0to malware attacks<\/a> that\u00a0exploit outdated software, as the attack continued to wreak havoc on systems worldwide. It was only stopped by accident after a security researcher registered a web domain that had been hard-coded into it as a kill switch<\/a>.<\/p>\n 2. Google announces Google Lens and Google.ai, and Google Home gets proactive assistance\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Artificial intelligence was the name of the game at Google\u2019s annual I\/O developer conference.\u00a0Google Home<\/a> is getting\u00a0hands-free calling and proactive alerts, Android O beta went live<\/a> (but we still don\u2019t know what the O stands for), a new AI initiative<\/a> that wants to make AI advances accessible to everyone was announced and Google Lens<\/a>, a new tech that wants to bring more smarts into your phone\u2019s camera, was announced.<\/p>\n 3.\u00a0The FCC officially proposes to end net neutrality rules<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n The FCC voted to initiate a process to repeal the strong net neutrality rules that have been in place since 2015. The Senate Democrats penned an open letter<\/a>, explaining that the existing net neutrality rules protect this foundation and the connected society that we all enjoy. Don\u2019t let the FCC take that away.<\/p>\n 4. Instagram launches selfie filters, copying the\u00a0last big Snapchat feature<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Instagram\u2019s testing of Location Stories<\/a> was also revealed on the Disrupt stage, but the company\u2019s main announcement of the week was that it is launching selfie filters for Instagram Stories. When asked about whether it is copying Snapchat, Instagram VP of Product Kevin Weil stated that \u201cThis is just the way the tech industry works.\u201d<\/a> SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying a payload from communications satellite company Inmarsat, the fourth in a constellation created to provide high-bandwidth broadband internet globally. The payload is the largest ever launched on a Falcon 9, which is why the mission parameters didn\u2019t call for an attempt to recover the first stage of the rocket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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This week the TechCrunch team threw another successful Disrupt conference, this time in New York City.\u00a020 companies took the stage at TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield, where they presented their products and took questions from our expert judges. The judges narrowed the competition down to five finalists.\u00a0But RecordGram,\u00a0a mobile recording studio where aspiring artists can find… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n\n<\/img><\/a>
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