🪖 It’s Memorial Day, friend. Let’s all remember the brave souls who made the ultimate sacrifice. May their courage never be forgotten. 🙏🏻

Here’s some military tech trivia for you: Which major innovation was originally developed for military use during wartime before becoming part of our everyday lives? A) Wi-Fi, B) GPS, C) Microwave ovens, or D) All of the above. The answer is waiting for you at the end! 

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If you’ve ever lost someone who served, or even just want to understand your family better, listen to this. I was poking around online, and I found my dad’s actual WWII draft card application. His name, his handwriting, his signature, where he lived. It was all there. I didn’t expect to get so emotional, but wow.

I remember him telling me a few stories. In the Korean War, he put up radio towers. I always found that ironic.

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You can request service records, replacement medals, even discharge papers (the famous DD-214) from the National Archives. It’s free. You just need the person’s name, service branch and birth/death dates if you have them.

Dig up old draft cards and enlistment records. It’s hard to beat Fold3 (offers a free seven-day trial). It has a massive military record collection, including digitized WWII draft cards like the one I found. You could also try FamilySearch (totally free).

🇺🇸 This Memorial Day, help a veteran

We honor the fallen on Memorial Day, but it’s also a chance to make sure the veterans still with us aren’t forgotten.

If someone in your life served, ask them to talk. Their stories matter. One of my favorite projects is StoryCorps’ Military Voices. They record and preserve veterans’ memories for future generations. 

The Veterans History Project from the Library of Congress also makes it easy to submit interviews, photos and memoirs. Many local VA hospitals offer writing or oral history workshops, and even your local American Legion or VFW may help document life stories.

I can’t tell you how cool it is to find that piece of someone’s story and hold it in your hands. Someone who stood in line, filled out forms like we do … then shipped off into history. 

Memorial Day isn’t about sales or hot dogs. It’s about remembering and sometimes, rediscovering. If you find something amazing, I’d love to hear about it. Know someone who needs this info? Use the handy icons below to send it via email or post a link on your social media.

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📱 iPhone tariff: About 60% of Americans use an iPhone, so we’re talking big money. Trump just threatened a 25% tariff on iPhones not made in the U.S. He says Tim Cook’s too cozy with India and Apple’s been Asia-based for decades. Its factories are basically tech cities. Wall Street winced; Apple stock dipped 3.9%.

Crypto brain drain: Glen Fishman thought he was talking to legit Coinbase support. Turns out, it was a scammer who yoinked his password and stole his crypto fortune. FBI clawed back $95K (truly a miracle), but the rest? Poof. Fishman says he may have to delay retirement. Reminder: Never trust a dude whose support ticket opens with “Hey boss.”

🤖 Fake dog alert: Those viral ads slinging “military-grade robot dogs” for $49? Total scam. They’re Frankensteining DARPA clips, festive music and lies at scale. YouTubers are debunking it so you don’t spend your rent money on a vibrating Furby with one wheel. And yeah, TikTok is letting it happen anyway.

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Android vs. phone thieves: Starting later this year, if your phone’s setup wizard gets skipped post-theft, the OS forces a second reset and locks down the phone until it gets proof of life, aka your old screen lock or Google login. Next up: Android yelling, “WHO SENT YOU?!” after every reboot. 

Don’t buy drugs online: Investigators found over 200 Spotify podcasts with AI voices or no sound at all. The goal? Get people to click the link in the bio, which led to sites selling sketchy prescription meds like Xanax. They weren’t hard to find, either. Some appeared in Spotify’s Top 50 when you searched drug names.

🔞 Forget the days of finding Dad’s Playboy under the bed: If you have teens, talk to them about this. Teens are romancing bots and AI on apps. Some bots have filters, others barely try. The risk isn’t just sexting, it’s warping emotional development in a world where your “girlfriend” never says no and always texts back. Speaking of … Years ago, a monk was selling flowers on the Playboy Mansion grounds, and no one but Hef could get him to leave. Turns out, only Hugh would prevent florist friars. (I saw you shake your head!)

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🚢 Summer is here: Officially? No. But who cares? Start the party early with my summer playlist, “Yacht Rock with an Edge!” Such a crowd-pleaser. Put it on for your next barbecue or lake day and be the hero.

Check yourself before you go to google.com/devices. Sign in if you need to. Here, you’ll see a list of devices you’re signed into currently or have been signed into within the last 28 days. See anything that’s not yours? Kick it off your account and change your password ASAP.

🔗 You’re doing LinkedIn wrong: Don’t put links in your LinkedIn posts. The algorithm buries anything that sends folks off the site. Instead, post your content without the link and drop it in the first comment. That tweak can double or even triple your reach. Hiring? Click here to post your job for free!*

I’m feelin’ the keyboard shortcuts lately: Here’s a faster way to navigate when you have lots of tabs open. In Windows, hit Ctrl + 1 (or 2 or 3 and so on) to go to that tab number. On Mac, it’s Cmd + [number]. To cycle through your open tabs, hit Ctrl + Tab (Windows) or Cmd + Tab (Mac).

And one more for the road: Which keystroke combination beat all the rest in the shortcut contest? Win + R! (You can steal that one from me.)

The answer: D) All of the above. Wi-Fi evolved from radar tech developed during WWII. GPS was created by the U.S. Department of Defense. Microwave ovens were born after radar engineers discovered microwaves could cook food. 

One small step for man, one giant leap for people who eat Hot Pockets. 

Phew, that was a packed newsletter. That’s why we’re the #1 newsletter in the United States. If you’re looking for movies to watch this Memorial Day, here are my top three picks: Hacksaw Ridge, Saving Private Ryan and Unbroken. Here’s the secret link again to Amazon’s big Memorial Day sale.

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