Microsoft strips Store blocking from Windows 10 Pro and other top stories.

• Microsoft strips Store blocking from Windows 10 Pro

  Microsoft last week confirmed that it has stopped letting business customers block the Windows Store in Windows 10 Pro, removing a feature that had been present in the operating system's initial summer 2015 release.Instead, the ability to turn off the Store -- Microsoft's distribution channel for not only apps but also games, music and movies, and about as consumer-grade as a Windows component gets -- has been restricted to Windows Enterprise, the top-tier SKU (stock-keeping unit) available..

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• Surprising country leading asteroid mining race

  

  The battle for precious minerals is set to get very interesting.ASTEROID mining is considered by many as the new frontier in the hunt for natural resources and Luxembourg is the latest player to throw its hat in the ring. The tiny European nation has teamed up with Californian company Deep Space Industries (DSI) to become the first European nation to enter the emerging space race. The partnership aims to produce a small 30cm spacecraft called Prospector-X which is designed to test some of the co..

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• Mercury Transit Timeline: The Stages of Today's Rare Celestial Sight

  

  Mercury will cross the sun's face from Earth's perspective Monday (May 9) for the first time since 2006, and the last until 2019. Credit: Space.com Store You can watch the 7.5-hour Mercury transit first-hand through a telescope, provided you have the proper solar filters. (Never look directly at the sun without such protection; blindness can result.) Or you can catch the event online; NASA, for example, will broadcast near-real time views from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)..

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• Moto X4 Real Life Image Surfaces, Confirms Previous Leaks - Android Headlines

  

  Motorola is now owned by Lenovo, as most of you know. This company has introduced three smartphones back in August, the Moto G (3rd-gen), Moto X Play and Moto X Pure / Style. The company was expected to introduce their successors in August this year ...

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• iOS 10 might finally bring an official Apple HomeKit app

  

  It's been more than a year since Apple introduced its own foray into the budding market of smart appliances and home automation products, what some label as the Internet of Things. Since then, adoption of HomeKit by manufacturers and developers has been steady but somewhat slow. Adoption by consumers, however, was perhaps slower, hampered by the dozens of apps available, one per smart home product. A long requested feature, Apple might have finally listened to its customers and might soon have ..

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