| Microsoft acquires GitHub, Facebook faces another data controversy and Nvidia pushes forward with its AI platform. All that and more in The Daily Crunch for June 4, 2018. 1. Microsoft has acquired GitHub for $7.5B in stock The official announcement follows weeks of acquisition rumors. Microsoft exec Nat Friedman will become GitHub's CEO, while co-founder Chris Wanstratch becomes a technical fellow at Microsoft. "GitHub will retain its developer-first ethos and will operate independently to provide an open platform for all developers in all industries," a Microsoft spokesperson said. 
2. Facebook says it "disagrees" with the New York Times' criticisms of its device-integrated APIs A recent New York Times article criticizes the privacy protections of device-integrated APIs, which were launched by Facebook a decade ago. Facebook said in April it would begin winding down access to these APIs, but The Times says that many of those partnerships are still in effect. 3. Nvidia prices Jetson Xavier AI platform developer kit at $1,299 Nvidia calls the next-gen robotics system the next step in autonomous machines as it brings AI capabilities to a new set of industries. 4. N26 now has 1 million customers It took N26 only nine months to grow from 500,000 to 1 million. And the company now plans to have 5 million users by 2020. 5. The race to build autonomous delivery robots rolls on It's been a busy year in delivery robot land. 6. How to watch the live stream for today's Apple WWDC keynote Hey, did you hear there's an Apple keynote today? If you're free at 10am Pacific, here's how you can watch. And of course we'll run down the biggest news from the event in tomorrow's Daily Crunch. 7. Podcasts are a newsletter's best friend We've got another week of TechCrunch podcasts for you, with Original Content reviewing the new season of Arrested Development, Equity discussing the latest funding round for scooter startups and CTRL+T weighing in on Tinder's new location-based features. | 
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