Microsoft-owned coding site Github to replace the term 'master' in push to remove slavery references

The Microsoft-owned computer code company Github is planning to replace the term “master” from its systems as the Black Lives Matter movement puts tech companies under pressure to drop perceived references to slavery. Nat Friedman, Github’s chief executive, said it was working on changing the default name for a branch of computer code from “master” to “main”. Programming languages have historically used the terms “master” and “slave&rdq