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on today's show Amazon's Kindle Fire HDX line Samsung preps a 4.3 update south park the stick of truth gets a release date the Nintendo 3ds breaks records and NASA's wacky job listings it's about flow bullets enzyme hello internet and welcome to the Buffalo bulletin where we recap five major stories from our site TechnoBuffalo calm every tuesday and friday if you're interested in reading more about any story we talked about on the show check the description for links or click on the graphics for every story if you have annotations available and toggled on I'm Ashley sceva hair your top stories amazon announced three updates to its kendall line of tablets this week the kindle fire HD the HDX and the HDX 8.9 the base model the HD starts at just 139 bucks for the eight gig version which is a super compelling deal for anyone without a tablet at this point the HDX and the HDX 8.9 are also really great values for their specs and it's obvious Amazon is making a huge kindle play just in time for the holidays for anybody wondering when their samsung galaxy s4 s3 or note 2 might get android 4.3 fear not it appears samsung is testing 4.3 jelly bean right now on those devices and will reportedly be rolling out that software update as early as next month of course that's also assuming the carriers here in the States won't completely destroy that update process and make it really really slow but it is nice to know that Samsung is working hard on that much wanted software upgrade in gaming we finally have an official release date for south park the stick of truth it came with an exciting shiny new release trailer where all of our favorite South Park citizens make appearances including mr. Hankey the Christmas poo and Jesus you'll be able to get your hands on the stick of truth December tenth of this year and it'll be available for xbox 360 playstation 3 and pc Nintendo's 3ds handheld console also in the news and for a pretty epic reason it seems the 3ds has finally beaten the all-time sales record for the original Nintendo Wii in Japan the 3d esas numbers crossed 12.7 million units which is a really impressive feat considering it took four years less for the 3ds to hit that number than the wii's 12.6 million units over seven years nice job 3ds and lastly our grab bag story if you've ever wanted to work for NASA but always knew you're too lazy to be an astronaut have they got a job for you they're paying 18 thousand dollars to valen tears willing to spend 70 days laying on a bed of course there is a catch the bed doesn't sit up and you're laying at a slight slant so they can study the effects of zero gravity on normal people right here on earth you can apply over at NASA's official website well that's the Buffalo bulletin for today if you enjoyed the show a thumbs up would be super awesome of you and if you want more great TechnoBuffalo video content please subscribe to our youtube channel by clicking this giant subscribe button see you next time