…sword to install programs on your computer that run unnoticed for years to come. Symantec reports that the most common words used in scam email subject lines are: 1. Urgent 2. Request 3. Important 4. Payment 5. Attention Notice anything special about these words? They’re pushing for fast action. A legitimate company will rarely tell a subscriber to act hastily via email. And the more urgent the email, the more likely it is to be a scam. To make su…

…government grants and non-profit support, has been connecting rural low-income communities to high-speed internet. We’re using equipment and methods that didn’t exist 10, 5, or even 2 years ago to accomplish these jobs. We are ready to do much more. We’re using the same high-speed, high-quality technology that we’ve pioneered in more commercially viable parts of our network. We build efficiently, economically, and sustainably. More funding for di…

…long, long ago. Though people in the 14th century didn’t know what air was composed of — or if it was composed of anything at all — and had no way of seeing tiny particles like bacteria or viruses, they could tell that the Black Death spread from person to person, ship to shore, house to house. So they made efforts to isolate people, as we’re doing now. 14th century Venetians invented quarantine — our word is taken from an Italian phrase, quaranta…