Editorial
About The Terminal
The Terminal is an independent technology publication. We cover artificial intelligence, software, hardware, security, and the companies building them, and we try to do it in plain language: what happened, who says so, and what it changes.
How we source stories
Every report starts from primary material wherever one exists — a filing, a changelog, a disclosure, a paper, a transcript, an on-record interview. Each article lists the sources it leans on, with the publisher and the date we accessed them, so you can check our work instead of taking it on faith.
When we rely on another outlet's reporting, we say so and link to it. When a claim comes from a single unverified source, we label it as unconfirmed rather than laundering it into fact. We do not publish from press releases alone, and vendor-supplied numbers are attributed to the vendor.
Reviews are hands-on
We only publish a review after we have used the product ourselves, for real work, over a period long enough to form a judgment. Scores run from 0 to 10 and reflect the version we tested on the date we tested it. Pros and cons are what we actually ran into, not a restatement of the marketing page.
We buy or use freely available versions of what we review where we can. Where a vendor provides access, hardware, or a trial licence, we disclose it in the review. No vendor sees a review before publication, no vendor gets copy approval, and no coverage is conditioned on advertising, affiliate revenue, or continued access.
Corrections
We correct errors quickly and visibly. A factual mistake is fixed in place with a dated correction note at the foot of the article explaining what was wrong and what it now says. Substantive rewrites carry an update note; typographical fixes do not. We do not silently delete published stories.
If you believe something we published is wrong, write to connect@theterminal.space with the article and the specific claim at issue, and we will look at it and respond. The contact page says what to include.
Independence
Editorial decisions sit with the newsroom alone. Commercial relationships, including any affiliate arrangements, never determine whether a story runs or what it concludes, and any such relationship relevant to a story is disclosed inside that story.