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Getty Images / Vox Amid tech layoffs, contract work isn’t looking so bad. Christine Ruiz left her 9-to-5 job last summer to do the same work as a contractor instead. In both places, she’s a compliance manager, the person...

Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, speaks during an event at the company’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington, on Tuesday, February 7, 2023. | Chona Kasinger/Bloomberg via Getty Images As tech giants like Microsoft and Go...

ExxonMobil netted its biggest year ever of $56 billion profits after oil and gas price spikes from the war in Ukraine. | David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images Exxon, BP, and the rest of the oil industry aren’t pre...

A student takes notes during an AP African American studies class on November 1, 2022, in Colorado. The course is part of a national pilot class that about 60 schools nationwide are participating in. | RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Grou...

Microsoft chair and CEO Satya Nadella introduces Bing, now with AI. | Courtesy of Dan DeLong/Microsoft Google bookended Microsoft’s big AI search announcement with underwhelming AI news of its own. Microsoft has official...

It might be time to feel a little less bad about the economy. | Daniel Grizelj/Getty Images If this is a recession, it is a weird one. It might be time to open up a perhaps surprising possibility here, at least if you’ve...