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 [Disclosure: Microsoft is a client of the author.]

Dan Lyons’ new book “Lab Rats:  How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us” makes it pretty clear how awful the new trend toward open plan offices is. Originally, people believed open office plans would be a significant improvement to the previous (and horrible) approach to office design – the dreaded cubicle. Which is ironic, given that the originator of the cubicle hated what his creation had become.

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What happens if you get sick at sea? For a good example of how telemedicine can help even the smallest and most remote communities, I spoke with Alaska Maritime Physicians to find out how it provides medical assistance to people at sea.

It's a few decades back, and this applications programmer pilot fish accepts a job at a company that provides support for insurance companies. But he won't be writing applications -- he'll be in system software.

Amazon this week announced its latest data analytics product, one aimed at scouring unstructured data within electronic medical records (EMRs) to offer up insights that physicians can use to better treat patients.

Don’t like the Windows 10 Microsoft Edge browser? You’re not alone. Only 11% of all Windows 10 users ran Edge as their main browser as of October 2018, down from 24% about two years before then, reports Computerworld’s Gregg Keizer.