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  Pontiac introduces a new model of the Bonneville SSEi. It claims to have dual airbags, anti-lock brakes, and traction control. It is also supercharged.
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  The Nintendo 64 is introduced in North America. It gets its name from its 64-bit central processing unit. It was awarded 1996 Machine of the Year by Time magazine.
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  The BlackBerry 850 was the first to carry the BlackBerry name. It was an email pager and was the first device to integrate emails.
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  It was the first trasnportation machine that was self-balancing and electric-powered. The segway uses a built-in computer to maintain its upright position.
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  The iTunes Store is a software-based online digital media store. It was first introduced by Steve Jobs at a Worldwide Developer's Conference.
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  Created by three former Paypal employees, YouTube is a video sharing service.
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  Marketed by Amazon.com, Amazon Kindle is a series of e-book readers. It allows users to shop for, download, and read e-books, newspapers, etc. from wireless networking,
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  Microsoft releases Windows 7, which claims to have fixed a lot of the problems from Vista. Microsoft added a redesigned taskbar that allowed programs to be pinned onto it.
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  Built by Rethink Robotics, Baxter is a 3-foot tall industrial robot. It can perform simple jobs such as loading, sorting, and handling items. Baxter was designed to perform the dull tasks in a production line.
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  Codenamed Shamu, Nexus 6 is the sixth smartphone in the Google Nexus series.