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on today's show Instagram direct wireless charging alliances come together steamos elder scrolls online's release date and the winner of that crazy red mac pro auction is revealed it's Buffalo bullets in time 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 mention on the show check the description for links or click on the graphics for each story if you have annotations available and toggled on I'm Ashley sceva Harry top stories well instagram held their press event yesterday and revealed their newest feature no it's not a first-party printing service or native tablet app like a lot of people wanted it's a direct messaging service Instagram direct is a messenger that allows you to send photos to your friends directly through the app works similar to twitter and that you can only send pics directly if the recipient follows you but there's no text only option this appears to be aimed at competing with snapchat but times gonna tell on this one wireless charging seems pretty cool but it's also a little bit frustrating there are so many different groups of wireless chargers there is the wireless power consortium power matters Alliance and the Alliance for wireless power that last group a4wp for short officially launched residents this week which is hoping to be the future standard for wireless charging there are over 70 big companies already on board including Samsung LG HTC and Qualcomm so maybe we will see residents grab a solid hold in the market over in gaming 300 very lucky beta participants will be receiving their steam machines over the next few days with steamos already pre-installed on the rigs steamos will also be available for download today but there's a catch according to valve getting steam OS up and running will be pretty tough quote unless you're an intrepid linux hacker already those are their words so I'm sorry if I just burst your steam bubble those of us not blessed with epic mad Linux skills will likely be waiting until later next year to try steamos out hotly anticipated MMO the Elder Scrolls online finally got a release date this week for both PC and console if you're using a PC or a Mac to play you'll be able to grab ESO on April fourth of next year if you're on PlayStation 4 or Xbox one you'll have to wait a little bit longer June to be exact there's also a new PvP trailer online it is delightful it shows Civil War long intense stares at people dragons magic fireballs and more will all be Adventure is this spring pretty much at least until we take an arrow to the knee lastly our wild kuch story for the day reveals the auction winner for the almost million-dollar red pack pro and also the 461 thousand dollar rose gold earpods it's actually the same guy who won both options and that guy is none other than former apple vice president tony fadell you're not familiar with his name you definitely know his work this is the guy who helped bring the ipod to the masses and more recently he co-created the nest thermostat it's pretty cool that he purchased those things but for me the best part is that over 1.4 million dollars from those two auctions went to charity that is the buffalo bulletin for today if you enjoyed the show give us a thumbs up that would be awesome 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