N obody recognizes Adrian Fontes when he walks into a Phoenix lunch spot near his office.The former recorder of Maricopa County looks like any other Arizona dad: a neat beard, a blue button-down, the kind of guy you’d see cheering on the sidelines at one of his girls’ softball games.He orders a burger with Swiss…

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New York (CNN Business) At 11:44 a.m.on September 19, 1982, Scott Fahlman made internet history by stitching together a colon, a hyphen and a close parenthesis. Fahlman, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University, posted “: – )” on the school’s online bulletin board, a primitive kind of social network accessible only by others…

President Biden announced on Thursday he was able to help broker a tentative rail deal between freight railroads and workers that averted a potential strike. The agreement, brokered by administration officials, was seen as a major victory as a strike would have wreaked havoc on the nation’s rail system and further disrupted supply chains during…

A brother and sister team in New York is building tiny homes to list on platforms like Airbnb and Vrbo.Their two builds located a four-hour drive from New York City have been hitting an over 90% occupancy rate.The sibling duo wants to build 100 units around the country in the next five years.Why vacation in…

Jay K.Varma is an internal medicine physician, epidemiologist and professor of population health sciences at Weill Cornell Medicine.Q: It feels like viruses are all over the news, whether it’s monkeypox, Ebola, polio or the coronavirus.Are there more outbreaks now than usual? Get the full experience.Choose your plan ArrowRight A: Several factors help explain why we’re…

Wall Street is betting big on Netflix ( NFLX ) and its upcoming ad-supported tier. Oppenheimer upgraded shares of the streaming giant to Outperform on Monday, citing increased opportunity in the ad space. “Netflix is in a unique position to aggregate large audiences and control the timing of series launches for top-tier advertisers, commanding high…

From left, SFO employees Charles Schuler, Catherine Cole and Sheryl Bregman watch a Lufthansa A380 land while touring the SFO air traffic control tower.In this week’s news, Air India will begin flying two more routes from San Francisco as it takes on more long-haul aircraft; Mineta San Jose gets new Tokyo service; United boosts its…

The Federal Reserve isn’t trying to slam the stock market as it rapidly raises interest rates in its bid to slow inflation still running red hot — but investors need to be prepared for more pain and volatility because policy makers aren’t going to be cowed by a deepening selloff, investors and strategists said. “I…