Tech Confronts Its Use of the Labels ‘Master’ and ‘Slave’

Last month, on Juneteenth—June 19—the data management company Delphix hosted a hackathon for employees to make coding terminology at the company more inclusive. Engineers tailored replacements for master/slave to specific contexts, says Sebastien Roy, the company’s director of systems platform development. Alternatives included active/standby, writer/reader, […]

Dark theme lands for Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides on Android Google Docs

The wave of software and apps that are getting the ‘dark mode’ treatment continues, ceaselessly beating against the default, glaring white of their interfaces. Google has now announced that its G Suite products – Docs, Sheets, and Slides –are all getting support for Android’s system-wide […]