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💐 Welcome to your Sunday, {{first_name | friend}}. My mom died from cancer almost five years ago. The other night, I was chopping onions for dinner, and I swear she was right there. Not in a spooky way. In a “still teaching me how to do it right” way. (She’d have had plenty to say about my knife technique.)

If your mom is still here, call her today. Not text. If she’s gone, make her recipe. Tell someone the story you’ve been holding. If your mom is complicated, your feelings are allowed to be every shape at once.

And to every woman who mothered someone else’s kids, the stepmoms and aunts and grandmothers and friends who showed up when no one else did: Happy Mother’s Day. You count. You always counted.

Now, onto our trivia. Google teamed up with Georgia Tech and the Wild Dolphin Project to release DolphinGemma, an AI trained on 40 years of dolphin recordings. The AI is so compact it fits on a regular Pixel phone that researchers wear underwater. (Yes. Really.)

🐬 What does AI confirm dolphins unique signature whistles really do? A) Coordinate group hunts, B) Call each other by name, C) Warn about sharks, D) Roast their cousins behind their fins. You are dolphin-ately awesome if your answer is correct at the end.

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Since it’s Sunday, I wanted to share something personal with you.

I downloaded a prayer app on a whim. Figured I’d use it once, delete it. You know the drill. Months later, I open it almost every morning.

Bella, Abby and I have a routine. Sunrise. Earbuds in. Awareness mode and leashes on. With my golden girls, I’m walking with the rosary, a Bible reading or a Sunday homily in my ear.

The app I use is Hallow. (Not a sponsor. I’d tell a friend about it. I’m Catholic so it fits.) Free version covers the daily rosary, Bible in a Year with Father Mike, Mass readings and Sunday sermons. Premium adds 10,000+ sessions with Mark Wahlberg, Jonathan Roumie and Lauren Daigle.

Prayer is hard when you’re sitting in silence, trying to make your brain stop. (Mine never does.) But when I’m moving? Feet on pavement, dogs sniffing along, sun coming up. The audio meets me where I am. No scrolling. No notifications. No noise.

Be sure to download your episodes the night before. Spotty cell service will yank you out of a quiet moment faster than a robocall. Been there.

These apps work best with your notifications silenced. Need to know how? Look for 🔕 Silence notifications during quiet time below in Device Advice.

Pick one. Download it. Try it. You don’t even have to be religious, only willing to listen. 

I asked a guy how his prayer business was doing. He said, “Great. Prophets are through the roof.” (Oh, I heard that groan!)

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Years of footage. One AI algorithm. Nowhere to hide. Israel hijacked Tehran’s security grid to create a real-time digital shadow of Khamenei. The result? A strike driven by the most precise targeting data we’ve ever seen. Here is exactly how they pulled it off.

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⌚ Heart watch warning: Your Apple Watch might know you’re headed for the hospital before you do. Researchers tracked 217 people with heart failure who wore an Apple Watch for three months. AI looked for shifts in activity, heart rate and blood oxygen patterns. Declining signals showed up 21 days before patients needed hospital care. That’s very practical data harvesting. Buy an Apple Watch now while you’re thinking of it.

Marinara mania: Gen Z is pushing Nonna-Maxxing on TikTok, turning grandma-coded living into a full internet trend: slow sauces, handmade pasta, phones off the table, real dishes, soft cardigans, the whole garlic-scented retirement package. It’s racked up tens of millions of views. The crazy part? Their rebellion against doomscrolling is being served by the same app that caused the doomscrolling.

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🛸 Pentagon dropped 162 declassified UFO files: You can read every page yourself. No clearance needed. The trove covers reports from 1947 through last December: FBI eyewitness accounts, Apollo 12 and 17 astronaut sightings, Navy pilot encounters, and 24 videos (41 minutes total) showing infrared blobs zigging at impossible angles. One 2023 clip from Greece shows an object making 90-degree turns at 80 mph. The whole archive sits at war.gov/UFO. Why didn't the alien go to the moon party? He heard it had no atmosphere.

⚡️ 3-second tech genius: Need an app, file or setting fast? On a Mac, press Cmd + Space to open Spotlight, then start typing. Use categories like Apps, Files, Actions or Clipboard to narrow it down. On Windows, press Win + S to search and filter by Settings, Documents, Folders and more. One shortcut, less clicking.

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🔕 Silence notifications during quiet time: When you need a break from app alerts, calls and texts, turn on Do Not Disturb. On iPhone, swipe down to open Control Center, tap and hold Focus, then choose Do Not Disturb. You’ll see a moon icon in the status bar. On Android, swipe down to Quick Settings and tap Do Not Disturb. Done.

🔄 Finally, a good Windows update: Next week’s Patch Tuesday is bringing “Xbox mode” for a console-style gaming on desktops and laptops. FAT32 drives format up to 2TB (up from 32GB), File Explorer launches faster and AI agents are on the taskbar. Security fixes, too, of course. Look for it at Settings > Windows Update > Check for updates.

🌕 NASA uploaded thousands of Artemis II photos: That’s the mission where four astronauts marked the first human lunar flyby in 50 years. The shots are spectacular. Full gallery here. They were captured on Nikon cameras and iPhone 17s. Somewhere, a flat-earther fell to their knees.

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I found this review my mom wrote about me online a few years ago. After she was gone. Five stars.

The title alone tells you everything about her: “Kim is my daughter and I would like to share the inside scoop.”

No subtle entrance. She walked into the internet like she owned it and went straight to defending her kid.

She told strangers about Bell Labs when I was 10, sitting next to her, working with tech two decades ahead of its time. About my computer science degree from ASU. About the 60-hour weeks. She wrote that I work on vacation “because technology does not wait.” She summed up my entire career in five words.

Somebody complained online that there were ads on my show and in my newsletters. So my mom sat down at the keyboard and explained to the internet that running a building full of servers and a staff of real humans with health benefits is, in fact, expensive. She defended me line by line, like a prosecutor with receipts. Somebody was wrong about her daughter, and that was that.

Then she wrote this: “As her mother, I feel an overwhelming sense of happiness when perfect strangers tell me how she made a positive difference in their lives.”

That’s the line I keep reading.

She didn’t measure me in numbers or reach or ratings. She measured me in strangers. One person helped, then another, then another. That’s the whole metric.

I’m trying to live up to that on a Sunday in May. Five years after she’s gone. With a kitchen that still smells like her recipes when I get them right.

Happy Mother’s Day, Mom. The inside scoop is that you were the reason for all of it. ❤️‍🩹

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🤙🏼 The answer: B) Call each other by name. Each dolphin develops its own “signature whistle” early in life. It’s basically their name. Mom dolphins use it to call their calves back from foraging, and entire pods use it to identify individual members. 

Dolphins use specific “click buzzes” for courtship and “burst-pulse squawks” for fighting. So yes, they flirt, fight and call each other by name. I met a really cool dolphin the other day. We didn’t have to say much. We just clicked.

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🔜 Tomorrow: Your hotel room or rental might not be as private as you think. I’ll share my creepy story of how I found 11 hidden cameras in one Airbnb and the simple checks you need to know. Plus, a trivia question that will shock you.

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