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on today's show google buys nest Starbucks chooses convenience over security a release date for the new octodad game a potential collaboration between retro studios and Shigeru Miyamoto and an apple highest on the Autobahn it's buffalo bulls in time hello internet and welcome to the buffalo bulletin where we recap 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 if you have annotations available in toggle on i'm ashley sceva here your top stories Google kicked off the post CES news alerts with a huge announcement earlier this week they're buying smart thermostat creator nest labs the purchase price 3.2 million dollars indicating Google is really interested in getting into home automation a nest posted a QA answering questions about the acquisition especially after some customers raised concerns about their data and privacy with elgoog between this purchase and Boston Dynamics Kubel is clearly building terminators that will also do your dishes Starbucks catching some flak this week after reports surfaced their mobile apps toward user names email addresses and even passwords in clear text meaning anyone with physical access to your device could see them Starbucks confirmed that on Wednesday night and admitted it opted for convenience over security but they do plan on updating the app the scarier part of this is around twenty percent of the time people use the same usernames and passwords for a lot of things on the internet like their bank accounts so if you're using the Starbucks app make sure you're not using the same user password combo as anything else important in gaming some pretty exciting possibilities cropped up an official nintendo magazine this week where nintendo producer kensuke caton ave and retro studios president michael kelva talked about their collaborative efforts in the past like the donkey kong country returns series and the metroid prime series but they also dropped a bomb that retro studios might work on a title under the man himself Shigeru Miyamoto that's something for Nintendo fans to completely freak out over including me but until that possibility becomes a reality we'll just have to settle for imagining what that collaboration might produce also in gaming octodad dadliest catch got an official release date it'll finally drop for pc mac and linux on january thirtieth there's a brand-new trailer attached that release date with octodad doing his best to keep the fact that he's a freaking octopus from his human wife and human children young horses president phil tippett osky says the ps4 release of Deadliest Catch is targeted for March I'm not kidding when I say this game is ridiculously fun has some awesome game mechanics and will delight and entertain even the grouchiest human being or octopus lastly our grab bag story the week is a bold heist two thieves stole over ninety-five thousand dollars of Apple product from a truck that happened to be moving on the Autobahn yeah apparently authorities think these guys left from the hood of their car to the back of the truck stole a bunch of iPads and iPhones and then took off the driver didn't even realize he'd been robbed until hours later but in related news oceans 14 just got written for free so somebody called George Clooney that's the Buffalo bulletin for today if you enjoyed the show give us a thumbs up that'd 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 guys next time