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on today's show cyanogen Inc looks into making phones blackberries Porsche phone part to the PlayStation 4 breaks sales records classic snake appears in a new metal gear and NASA's MAVEN probe it's buffalo bulls in time hello internet and welcome to the buffalo bulletin where you recap five major stories from our site TechnoBuffalo calm every tuesday and friday if you're interested in reading more about any story i mentioned on the show check the description for links or click on the graphics for each story if you have annotations available and toggle on i'm ashley sceva hair your top stories it looks like oppo vice president pete lau has resigned in order to work alongside cyanogen Inc savage and mod creators Steve Kondik and developer couche de de posted a picture with Lao late last week revealing the reason for their meeting was to discuss their vision of a high powered phone running amazing software we're assuming the amazing software is cyanogen of course but it remains to be seen how Lau will assist on the hardware side of things the one thing we are sure about though is that this is a most intriguing collaboration and one with enough potential to make any Android fan excited blackberry unveiled the p'9982 the sequel to the p9981 which is a very expensive handset designed alongside Porsche there were rumors going around that the two companies would collaborate again on a second handset and now those rumors are official it has a stainless steel front interchangeable leather-wrapped back panels and shares the very same in size as the blackberry z10 it will be available at London's famous Harrods department store for twenty four hundred dollars I guess they can sell one or two everyone in Waterloo gets a poutine of the Month Club membership for the holiday bonus I got nothing over in gaming the big story late last week was the PlayStation 4 launch and now we've got some sales numbers to go with the new console the ps4 smashed sales records for consoles in North America selling out its entire initial shipment of 1 million units in just 24 hours it's now the biggest console launch of all time but we'll have to wait and see who comes out on top because Microsoft is looking to topple the record this friday with the launch of their xbox one unless though of where your console allegiance melee it's a really good time to be a gamer if you're not familiar with metal gear solid 5 ground zeroes it's kind of a little prologue and keep us satisfied until metal gear solid 5 the phantom pain drops but even better it seems that metal gear publisher Konami says there's going to be an awesome easter egg in the playstation 3 and playstation 4 versions of ground zeroes a special deja vu mission that takes snake back in time to the first Metal Gear in 1998 low polygon count and all series creator Hideo Kojima has a pretty well-known sense of humor so I'm sure this bonus level will hit the mark for Metal Gear fans everywhere our wildcard story for today takes us into the final frontier space yesterday NASA officially wants the Mars atmosphere and volatile evolution probe or maven for short unlike the Mars Curiosity rover which focuses on Mars's surface mavens job will be to study Mars's atmosphere over time NASA hopes to learn why Mars is currently the way it is since they believe at some point it may have had an atmosphere similar to ours here on earth we can expect maven to start sending data back in late-september of next year so we got a little while to wait that's the Buffalo bulletin for today if you enjoy the show a thumbs up would be super awesome of you and if you want more a great technobuffalo video content please subscribe to our youtube channel by clicking this giant subscribe button see you guys next time