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on today's show a new Nokia event in February Apple's patent for a method for mood based at delivery steamos gets dual-boot more sports content for the xbox one and every nes start screen ever stuff allah bolton 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 on the show check the description below for links or click on the graphics if you have annotations available and toggle on I'm Ashley sceva here your top stories it seems like only yesterday we were roaming the show floor at CES but CES is so last week no key has already got an invite out for a February 24th event there isn't much revealed on the invite itself aside from a cryptic meet us under the tree whatever that means it's possible we'll see the phone currently dubbed the Lumia icon which is a 5-inch 1080p windows phone 8 device or even the highly curious Normandy phone which is that Android smartphone developed by Nokia then again maybe we'll see no new devices and we'll just hear more about Nokia's plans to transition its mobile business to Microsoft over in super weird and a little creepy news apple filed a patent for a method of ad serving that works based on the user's mood traditionally ads are served based on your interest so things like your web history and searches come into play but apple's patent gathers data based on actions choosing a mood and then giving a confidence score for that mood so maybe you're listening to sad love songs after a breakup on iTunes and Apple serves you ads in Safari for a dating site apple also describes sensors and face recognition software in the patent but for now it's just theoretical but it could easily be translated for future real world views in gaming steamos continues to work out the kinks in its beta and recently valve not only added support for non Nvidia graphics cards they also gave steamos the ability to dual-boot and create custom partitions of course valve warns users the features haven't been thoroughly tested with valve engineer John verte stating don't install it on any machine you are not prepared to lose of course that's all part of a beta and if you've got an experimental rig hanging around a home it might be worth checking out official steam machines will arrive later this year with a wide variety of price tags attached Microsoft is working really hard on making its console the centerpiece of your living room and this week the xbox one took another step in that direction they announced they've established a partnership with IPTV provider new lion that will give Xbox one users access to both 24 7 linear channels and on-demand sports content in addition the streams will include real-time statistics for hardcore fans no word yet on which sports will actually be showing a new lion or even when the service is expected to launch on Xbox one but hopefully they'll get it up and running in time for either march madness or maybe major league baseball season open our wildcard story today is the throw back to the good old glory days of the nes for those of us out there who have fond memories of booting up our nes and blowing into cartridges to make them work a very intrepid fan has collected and cut together every single press Start screen appearing in an NES game youtube user an explosion FX says it took him forever to complete the video which we can tell by its nearly 3 hour run time it's pretty great though and well worth flipping through to find your favorite 8-bit titles as soon as I saw maniac mansion in milan serie castle i am telling you all the nostalgia right in the feels 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 guys next time