Claim: The County of Los Angeles has requested that equipment vendors avoid using the industry term "Master/Slave" in product descriptions and labeling. Status: True. Origins: Social changes of our ...

A few years ago, Karla Monterroso was at an airport when she noticed a glitch in a computer monitor that would normally display flight information. Instead, the screen showed the text “Master/Slave,” ...

The recent movement to greater racial equality and awareness has affected many aspects of our lives and professional work. As a result, even the technical community has come under scrutiny. Perhaps ...

Sinclair Im, a graduate student at Yale University, is a student fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. Like countless U.S. businesses, tech companies lately have been showing ...

Exclusive: The site's move toward inclusive language formally began in January, months before the current Black Lives Matter protests. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

Fifteen years ago, while teaching a WebSphere Portal class attended by several black students, I became incredibly uncomfortable when the standard software term master and slave came up in our ...

Communications in which one side (the "master") initiates and controls the transmission. The "slave" at the other end of the line responds to commands from the master. In this configuration, polling ...