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GitHub Has Become A Haven For China's Censored Internet Users

Created by Chinese programmers, 996.ICU has become a popular repository of workers' rights campaign materials on the website GitHub. The name is a play on a refrain that long work hours of 9 to 9, six days a week, could send tech workers to the intensive care unit. 996.ICU/Screenshot by NPR hide caption

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GitHub Has Become A Haven For China's Censored Internet Users

April 10, 2019 • Without access to Facebook or Twitter, Chinese tech workers have gathered on GitHub, the world's largest open-source programming platform, to complain about 12-hour days and demand better conditions.

GitHub Has Become A Haven For China's Censored Internet Users

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Blazing The Trail For Female Programmers

Ester Gerston and Gloria Ruth Gordon, early programmers working on the ENIAC computer in 1946. U.S. Army hide caption

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Blazing The Trail For Female Programmers

April 29, 2013 • Only about 20 percent of all computer programmers are women, but one pioneering CEO is trying to change that. Blazing Cloud's Sarah Allen hopes that making women in the field more visible to each other will help young women see a path for themselves in this fast-growing profession.

Blazing The Trail For Female Programmers

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