Github is preparing to overhaul coding terminology that has long been criticized for being racially insensitive, the company’s chief executive said. Github, the Microsoft-owned developer platform, is ...

As employees at tech companies join the movement against racial injustice, some are calling attention to the language of the industry itself. The head of Microsoft's GitHub, the web's biggest site for ...

More often than not, the tech industry likes to position itself as a neutral industry where race, class, gender, and sexual orientation don't influence the decision-makers. But we know that is a ...

Raleigh technology company Red Hat said Tuesday that it would take measures to remove contentious terms like “master/slave” from its source code and other areas, in an effort to make its products more ...

Twitter and JPMorgan are phasing out “racial” terms from their programming code, including “master,” “slave,” “whitelist” and “blacklist,” according to recent reports. On Thursday, CNET reported that ...

GitHub is looking to replace racially insensitive terms like “master” and “slave” across the website and its documentation, CEO Nat Friedman said over the weekend. The announcement comes as enormous ...

Github is going to overhaul coding terminology that has long been criticized for being racially insensitive, according to the company’s chief executive. The Microsoft-owned developer platform is ...