This new drone footage shows that Apple's ‘spaceship campus’ still has a long way to go

Drone footage surfaced today of Apple’s new Cupertino headquarters, which has been under construction since 2013.

Apple Campus 2 is part of the legacy of Steve Jobs, who originally planned the campus, which is supposed to accommodate 13,000 people, on its 176-acre site.

“It’s a little like a spaceship,” said Jobs when he proposed the new campus to the Cupertino City Council back in 2011. “We have a shot,” he said, “at building the best office building in the world.”

Last year, Tim Cook told employees the new campus would be done by January 2017, according to 9to5Mac. Looking at the footage that came out today, it appears there’s still a lot of work to do.

The latest video shows new landscaping and earthwork across the entire campus. Captions by Matthew Roberts, the videographer behind the drone footage, note that there are also windows now covering the new auditorium under construction. The on-campus auditorium will seat 1,000 people, according to plans submitted with the city of Cupertino.

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Research on to make fracture -free rails: MoS Manoj Sinha

BAREILY: Minister of state for railways and communications Manoj Sinha said here on Saturday that rail fractures are the main cause behind train accidents. He said the Research Designs and Standards Organisation (RDSO) has been asked if it can construct rails which do not fracture and research to the effect is underway.

Sinha was in Bareilly for inspection of Delhi-Bareilly section of Northern Railway and Bareilly-Badaun section of North Eastern Railway and inspection of en-route stations.

Asked about the steps taken to minimise railway accidents after Kanpur tragedy in which more than 100 passengers died, Sinha said, "Though we conduct regular maintenance, the problem arises during the variation of temperature between day and night, especially in the month of October-November. The difference in temperature causes rail fracture. We have asked RDSO if it can make rails which do not get fractured. Research on this is going on."

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EgyptAir flight MS804 to Cairo disappears from radar

EgyptAir flight 804 travelling from Paris to Cairo has disappeared from radar with 56 passengers and 10 crew members on board, the airline has said.

French President Francois Hollande said in a televised address that the plane had crashed early on Thursday.

The plane made "sudden swerves" mid-air and plunged before dropping off radars in the southern Mediterranean, Greece's defence minister said.

"At 3:39am the course of the aircraft was south and south-east of Kassos and Karpathos [islands] ... immediately after it entered Cairo FIR and made swerves and a descent I describe; 90 degrees left and then 360 degrees to the right," Defence Minister Panos Kammenos told a news conference.

Greek authorities mounted a search in the area south of the island of Karpathos without result so far, he said.

However, Egypt's civil aviation ministry said in a statement it was too early to confirm if the passenger plane had crashed.

According to EgyptAir, the plane took off from Paris' Charles De Gaulle Airport shortly after 11pm local time.

Greece is deploying military aircraft and a frigate to an area in the southern Mediterranean its defence ministry said.

The search for the missing EgyptAir plane was taking place at sea, about 130 nautical miles southeast of the island of Karpathos, the Greek defence ministry told Reuters news agency.

"One C-130 aircraft and an early-warning EMB-145H plane are already operating in the area. Another C-130 plane is on standby at Kasteli airport on the [southern Greek] island of Crete," Greece's military command said.

Source: http://www.aljazeera.com