Github CEO Nat Friedman said over the weekend that the company is working to replace ‘master’ with a neutral term like ‘main’ to remove references to slavery. The company currently uses ‘master’ to ...

“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Andrew Kraft, a principal at AQKraft ...

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 ...

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 ...

Delphix employees organized an Inclusive Language Hackathon that will take place this Friday — Juneteenth — to replace racist or ableist terms in the company's codebase with more inclusive words. Some ...

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 ...

Linus Torvalds, the principal engineer of the Linux kernel, has approved new terminology for its code and documentation to promote the inclusive language. The change abolishes terms such as blacklist, ...

Key Linux kernel maintainers have largely welcomed a new proposal by Intel engineer and fellow kernel maintainer Dan Williams to introduce inclusive terminology in the kernel's official coding-style ...

Twitter has pledged to use more inclusive language in its programming code, dropping terms like "master," "slave," "whitelist" and "blacklist." The social network's engineering team said Thursday the ...

It so happens that the topic of Whitelists vs. Blacklists comes up a lot when I’m talking to clients. The questions seem to always revolve around the pros and cons between these two methods of ...

The leadership at large social media and technology companies is aiming to use its influence to scrub terminology that associates “black” with any negative perception. Google Vice President David ...