The Daily Populous

Friday July 14th, 2017 evening edition

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Reddit is exploring a new way to make its front page more relevant to its readers.

The social aggregation and discussion website is testing tailored home pages based on a reader's location in select places, Gadgets 360 spotted on Wednesday.

The company has confirmed to us that it is indeed testing "geo popular" home pages.

It's unclear if registered and signed in users are also a part of the experiment.

Testing from India, in one case we found several stories from r/India and r/cricket (no surprise given the sport's popularity in the country) subreddits populate the home page.

Reddit is also letting people switch the home page to any of the aforementioned country's home pages.

Reddit, Google Protest Proposed Changes to US Net Neutrality Rules on 'Day of Action'. »

NASA Just Announced They Can’t Afford to Get Humans to Mars

Authored by futurism.com

In Brief NASA admitted today that under the current budget they cannot afford to get humans to Mars.

NASA has been talking about getting humans to Mars for years, and continues to provide updated plans for getting there.

Unfortunately, though, NASA’s chief of human spaceflight, William H. Gerstenmaier, just announced that the agency can’t achieve the Mars goal on its current budget. »

Elon Musk Exposes Deep Coal Divide in Australia

Authored by bloomberg.com
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Elon Musk’s intervention in Australia’s energy crisis is widening a divide over the future of coal.

The billionaire Tesla Inc. founder, who has promised to help solve an Australian state’s clean energy obstacles, sees no place for the fossil fuel.

Energy minister Josh Frydenberg, 45, accused the state of tapping a celebrity to paper over its patchy clean energy record. »

Gegard Mousasi Explains Why He Left the UFC to Sign with Bellator MMA

Authored by mmaweekly.com

“Many, many factors,” Mousasi said about his reason for leaving the UFC when speaking to MMAWeekly.com. “The pay was better.

“I get to bring fighters in and Scott [Coker] will give them the opportunity to fight.

I will have the opportunity to go to light heavyweight, maybe fight for a title with the middleweight belt. »