Twitter removing ‘master/slave’ from programming language | Friday 3rd July 2020

Twitter is the latest tech company to rethink their programming terminology to remove racially sensitive terms. It follows the conversation around Breaker founder Leah Culver, which we first talked about back in June on Tech and Science Daily.

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