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on today's show whatsapp gets bought Google IO ticket information Xbox one bugs Metal Gear Solid 5 comparisons and a new iTunes Music Festival location it's Buffalo Bulletin time hello internet and welcome to the buffalo bulletin where we recap stories from our site TechnoBuffalo comm every Wednesday and Friday if you're interested in reading more about any story on the show check the description below for links or click on the graphics if you have annotations available and toggled on I'm Ashley Scavo parry top stories the folks at messaging app whatsapp are probably all out buying yachts today after announcing on Wednesday Facebook will be acquiring them for a whopping 16 million dollars with a three billion dollar stock bonus in four years it seems like Mark Zuckerberg felt like he wasn't getting enough people to use Facebook Messenger and so decided to buy a competing client to fast-track Facebook's messaging numbers as of right now whatsapp doesn't have any ads and will be operating separately for the time being from Facebook but you and I both know it's only a matter of time yesterday Google announced official dates for its IO Developer Conference but this time around there's a new ticket distribution process if you would like to attend the event on June 25th and 26th of this year you won't be incessantly refreshing a ticket buying page like previous years google says this year you'll be submitting an interest form and there will be a lottery for ticket sales this definitely helps out people who can't otherwise be present for those mad dash ticket sellouts that we saw last year and here before everyone interested better start saving up now last year's general admission tickets cost 900 bucks over in gaming if you're an Xbox one user and you've experienced a strange bug that causes your screen to remain black when you boot up your Xbox one you are not alone some users think it may have something to do with the yes command that follows Xbox turn off getting recognized by Kinect fortunately for us Microsoft has acknowledged the problem and announced they are working on a fix but for the time being Microsoft support says the issue can be fixed by holding down the power button for 10 seconds it's definitely not as serious as a red ring of death but still a little bit stressful for unknowing Xbox one owners also in gaming Konami released some video this week showing off the differences between the Xbox 360 Xbox one PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 versions of Metal Gear Solid 5 Ground zeroes the footage looks pretty great across all four platforms but ps4 version if I do say so myself looks especially good if you'd like to see a non compressed full 60 frames per second comparison GameTrailers has a download available that will Navy you to see everything every gritty little detail ground zeroes hits retail shelves soon you will be able to pick up the newest Metal Gear in the US on March 18th and in Japan and Europe on March 20th lastly our wild card story for dayz great news for anybody headed to Austin for South by Southwest this year Apple announced this week it would be bringing the popular iTunes music festival the South by this year this will be the first time the u.s. sees iTunes Music Festival as Apple usually holds the event annually in London currently only a handful of bands have been announced for the show but the lineup already features acts like imagine dragons Coldplay pitbull Zedd and Keith Urban with Apple saying they've got a lot more to announce 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 to TechnoBuffalo video content please subscribe to our youtube channel by clicking this giant subscribe button see you guys next time