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Apple opens world's first retail store that floats on water; see pics

  The retail outlet offers uninterrupted 360-degree panoramic views of Singapore and its spectacular skyline, according to Apple iPhone  maker  Apple  has opened its first floating retail store in Singapore's Marina Bay Sands that sits directly on the water. It is the US-base tech giant's first store surrounded entirely by water appearing as a sphere floating on the Marina Bay. The retail outlet offers uninterrupted 360-degree panoramic views of the city and its spectacular skyline, according to Apple. The store opened on Thursday, September 10. The sphere is a first-of-its kind, all-glass dome structure that is fully self-supported, comprised of 114 pieces of glass with only 10 narrow vertical mullions for structural connection. An oculus at teh apex of teh dome provides a flooding ray of light, with custom sunshade rings lining teh interior glass. This outlet is Apple's third retail location Singapore. The first store located at the Knightsbridge building along Orchard Ro

Any customer can use new 5G product, build on it: Qualcomm

Qualcomm's senior vice-president and general manager, 4G/5G, Durga Malladi, said that since the company was working working with several partners in India and around the world, any of them or its customers can avail themselves of this horizontal platform and build on it US-based Qualcomm Technologies Inc has said that any of its customers can use the horizontal 5G platform announced by it and come up with a "full-blown solution". The company's senior vice-president and general manager, 4G/5G, Durga Malladi, stated that since Qualcomm was "working with several partners in India" and around the world, any of them or its customers "can avail themselves of this horizontal platform" and build on it. Present at the Qualcomm 5G Summit held on Tuesday, October 20, Malladi told Indian Express at a roundtable as part of the event that the (5G) solution is a horizontal platform, thus "we are not providing a complete solution anyway." He added that
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