WD has found a way to recapture rare earth elements from old hard drives.
  • Un4tural@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    3 days ago

    Good guy China helping with global recycling incentives rather than just chucking the old electronics in the landfill?

  • Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
    5·
    3 days ago

    A bit of a tangent, but Tom’s Hardware ran an A/B test for their headline with the following options:

    A: WD launches HDD recycling process that reclaims rare earth elements, cuts out China.

    B: This HDD recycling process could make U.S. less dependent on China.

    I get the point of A/B testing, but this is an example where as a media organization you have to pick whether you believe in A or B. If you are into technology, you can make a solid argument that A and B are extremely different.

    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      I’d go with a, it 's factual, while b sounds clickbaity like the next cheap boulevard paper. TH going down the drain of cheap attention for ads now?

      • Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        Yes, A sounds far more neutral.

        B is borderline misinformation as there was nothing in their own article to backs up the “make U.S. less dependent on China”.