Don't Fly A Plane Through Ash

If You Ask Siri About 'Her,' She Throws Some Serious Shade, What Can Happen When A Plane Flies Through Ash, The Smartest Book About Our Digital Age Was Published In 1929, The Gladiator Sequel That Never Was, How The NSA (May Have) Put A Backdoor In One Of The World's Foremost Security Products The Daily Digg Monday, January 6, 2014 A.I. FIGHT If You Ask Siri About 'Her,' She Throws Some Serious Shade buzzfeed.com The intelligence may be artificial, but the rivalry is very real. THE FLYING ASHTRAY What Can Happen When A Plane Flies Through Ash digg.com Volcanologist Haraldur Sigurdsson tells Scott Pelley how ash from an erupting volcano can shut down the engines of a plane. CREEPILY PRESCIENT The Smartest Book About Our Digital Age Was Published In 1929 thedailybeast.com How José Ortega y Gasset's "The Revolt of the Masses" helps us understand everything from YouTube to Duck Dynasty. YOU WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ENTERTAINED The Gladiator Sequel That Never Was oneroomwithaview.com Following Gladiator's success, star Russell Crowe asked his fellow Australasian, singer-songwriter Nick Cave, to pen a sequel. When Cave brought up the little inconvenience of Crowe's character, Maximus Decimus Meridius, dying at the end of the film, Crowe replied: "Yeah, you sort that out." And he did. GETTING IN WHERE THE SUN DON'T SHINE How The NSA (May Have) Put A Backdoor In One Of The World's Foremost Security Products arstechnica.com Here are the basics on backdoors in security systems. Read more on Digg.com → YES, THOSE ARE REAL PEOPLE Visitors gather at the China Ice and Snow World, after the official opening of the 15th Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival in Harbin, in northeast China's Heilongjiang province on January 5, 2014. Thousands of visitors braved temperatures of minus 27 degrees Celsius (-17 degrees Fahrenheit) to visit the Ice and Snow World, which features the theme "Global Ice and Snow Dream, World Cartoon Tour". Credit: GOH CHAI HIN/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014