Corrections Policy

EmbeddedScience.org is committed to accuracy, technical integrity, and transparency. Technology and engineering reporting often involves complex specifications, evolving research, preliminary findings, manufacturer claims, and rapidly changing information. When we identify a substantive error in published material, we seek to correct it promptly and clearly.

This policy describes how EmbeddedScience.org evaluates and corrects errors, updates previously published material, and responds to questions concerning the accuracy of our reporting.

Our Responsibility

EmbeddedScience.org takes responsibility for the accuracy of material we publish.

Writers and editors are expected to make reasonable efforts to verify factual and technical information before publication. When an error is discovered after publication, we evaluate its significance and make an appropriate correction.

Corrections are intended to make the published record more accurate, not simply to remove information that a person, company, or organization finds unfavorable.

What We Correct

Corrections may be appropriate when published material contains a substantive error involving matters such as:

• Names, titles, organizations, dates, or locations
• Technical specifications or product capabilities
• Measurements, units, calculations, or numerical data
• Component numbers, processor names, model numbers, or product designations
• Engineering terminology or descriptions
• Research findings or scientific conclusions
• Descriptions of technical processes or systems
• Statements incorrectly attributed to a person or organization
• Incorrect quotations or materially inaccurate paraphrasing
• Incorrect links or citations that affect the sourcing of an article
• Materially inaccurate descriptions of a company’s technology or claims
• Images, captions, charts, diagrams, or other visual material that inaccurately represent the subject
• Errors that materially alter the meaning or conclusions of an article

The appropriate response depends on the nature and significance of the error.

Minor Corrections

Minor errors that do not materially affect the meaning, accuracy, or conclusions of an article may be corrected without a formal correction notice.

These may include spelling, punctuation, grammar, formatting, typographical errors, broken links, or other minor editorial issues.

We may also make minor improvements for clarity or readability when those changes do not materially alter the substance of the original reporting.

Substantive Corrections

When an error materially affects a factual statement, technical explanation, quotation, attribution, calculation, or conclusion, EmbeddedScience.org may add a correction or editor’s note explaining the change.

Where appropriate, the notice should identify:

• What information was incorrect
• What the corrected information is
• When the correction was made
• Any significant effect the correction has on the article’s original interpretation or conclusions

We do not intentionally conceal substantive corrections by silently changing materially inaccurate information.

Updates to Developing Stories

Technology, science, business, and engineering stories frequently continue to develop after an article is published.

New information does not necessarily mean that the original article was incorrect.

An article may therefore be updated when additional information becomes available, including new technical specifications, research results, company statements, regulatory decisions, product releases, or other significant developments.

When an update materially expands or changes the original article, an update notice may be added to distinguish new information from a correction of previously inaccurate information.

Technical Specifications and Manufacturer Claims

Technical reporting frequently relies on specifications, performance figures, roadmaps, demonstrations, projections, and other information supplied by manufacturers, researchers, developers, or institutions.

When reporting such information, EmbeddedScience.org seeks to distinguish between independently established facts and claims made by the organization responsible for a technology or product.

If a manufacturer subsequently changes a specification or corrects information it previously supplied, an article may be updated to reflect the new information. When relevant, we may explain that the original information came from the earlier source rather than treating the original reporting as an independent factual error.

Research and Scientific Findings

Scientific and engineering research evolves.

Research described in an article may later be revised, challenged, replicated, contradicted, corrected, or retracted. The emergence of subsequent research does not automatically make earlier reporting inaccurate if the original article correctly represented the state of the research at the time.

When significant subsequent developments materially affect an article, we may update the article or add an editorial note providing additional context.

If a research paper on which an article substantially relies is formally corrected or retracted, EmbeddedScience.org may update the article to disclose that development.

Sources and Attribution

If EmbeddedScience.org discovers that information has been attributed to an incorrect source, we will correct the attribution when appropriate.

If a source substantially changes or removes material after publication, we may update the citation, replace a broken link, link to an archived or alternative authoritative source when appropriate, or add an explanatory note.

The disappearance of an external webpage does not by itself mean that reporting based upon that source was inaccurate when published.

Images, Graphics, and Captions

Corrections may also apply to photographs, illustrations, charts, diagrams, captions, and other visual material.

If an image is incorrectly identified, misleadingly captioned, improperly attributed, or materially misrepresents the subject of an article, we may replace or correct it and provide an explanatory note when the error is substantive.

Illustrative or representational imagery should not be presented in a way that causes readers to reasonably believe it depicts an actual product, event, person, or system when it does not.

AI-Assisted Editorial Work

Artificial-intelligence tools may assist portions of the editorial workflow, including research organization, transcription, editing, data analysis, or drafting assistance.

AI-generated output is not considered an authoritative source.

Information incorporated into published reporting remains subject to editorial review and verification regardless of whether AI tools were involved in its preparation.

If an AI-assisted process contributes to a substantive published error, that error is handled under the same correction standards as any other editorial error. Responsibility for published material remains with EmbeddedScience.org and its editors.

Reader Correction Requests

Readers, researchers, engineers, manufacturers, companies, and other interested parties may submit potential corrections through the contact information provided on our Contact page.

A useful correction request should identify:

• The article in question
• The statement or material believed to be inaccurate
• The proposed correction
• Supporting documentation or authoritative sources when available

Providing supporting evidence can substantially assist our review, particularly when a dispute concerns technical specifications, scientific research, or engineering claims.

How Correction Requests Are Evaluated

Submitting a correction request does not automatically result in a change.

EmbeddedScience.org may review the original sources, technical documentation, research papers, interviews, company materials, public records, or other relevant evidence before determining whether a correction is warranted.

When credible sources disagree, we may revise an article to describe that disagreement rather than declaring one disputed position to be established fact.

Companies and individuals discussed in our reporting are welcome to identify factual errors. However, disagreement with an article’s conclusions, analysis, emphasis, or inclusion of accurately reported information does not by itself constitute a factual error.

Requests to Remove Accurate Information

EmbeddedScience.org generally does not remove accurate editorial material solely because it has become inconvenient, unfavorable, outdated, or unwanted by the subject.

We may consider exceptional circumstances involving legal requirements, privacy, personal safety, copyright, confidential information, mistaken identity, or other substantial concerns.

Such requests are evaluated individually.

Retractions

Retraction is reserved for exceptional circumstances.

An article may be withdrawn or substantially retracted when its central premise is demonstrated to be materially false, when the reporting cannot reasonably be corrected while preserving the article, or when serious legal, ethical, sourcing, plagiarism, fabrication, or authenticity issues undermine the integrity of the work.

When practical and appropriate, EmbeddedScience.org favors maintaining a transparent record explaining why material was withdrawn rather than simply causing it to disappear without explanation.

Legal Complaints

Legal complaints concerning published material are reviewed separately from ordinary correction requests.

Receipt of a legal complaint does not automatically establish that published information is inaccurate.

EmbeddedScience.org may correct, modify, restrict, or remove material when appropriate following review of the relevant facts and circumstances.

Changes to Headlines

Headlines may be corrected or clarified when they inaccurately characterize the underlying article.

Headlines may also be updated as a developing story changes. Material changes intended to correct a misleading or factually inaccurate headline may be disclosed when appropriate.

Dates and Publication Records

Where technically practical, EmbeddedScience.org seeks to preserve the original publication date of an article.

An article that receives a significant subsequent revision may also display an updated date or explanatory note.

An updated date should not be used solely to make old material appear newly published.

Archived Content

Older EmbeddedScience.org material represents reporting produced with the information available at the time of publication.

We do not routinely rewrite historical articles simply because technology, terminology, specifications, or circumstances subsequently changed.

When an older article contains a significant factual error or could materially mislead readers because of later developments, an editor’s note, correction, or update may be added when appropriate.

Transparency

Our objective is to maintain an accurate and useful editorial record.

The form of a correction should be proportionate to the significance of the error. Minor mistakes may be corrected directly, while substantive errors should be handled transparently enough for readers to understand what changed.

Contacting EmbeddedScience.org

Potential errors may be reported using the contact information provided on the EmbeddedScience.org Contact page.

Please include the article title or URL and enough information for us to identify and evaluate the issue.

Publisher

EmbeddedScience.org is published by Stone Hill Learning and Energy Systems LLC.

This Corrections Policy applies to editorial material published by EmbeddedScience.org and should be read together with our Editorial Policy, Privacy Policy, and Terms of Use.