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iFixit says the Surface Pro X is more repairable than other Surfaces Popular tech repair website iFixit has done ateardown of the Microsoft Surface Pro Xand deemed it the most user-repairable Surface yet. Many tech products these days have soldered components and non-standard screws to stop you from tinkering with them or, more usefully, simply repair them when they break after a couple of years. iFixit cracks open all the latest tech to give it a repairability score out of ten – it awarded the Surface Pro X a six....

Instagram will test hiding likes on posts in the US Instagram will start testing hiding like counts to anyone but the post’s creator in the US after rolling out the feature in other parts of the world (Brazil, Canada, Ireland, Italy, Japan, New Zealand). The move is against the influencer-led metrics game in favour of people’s wellbeing. TechCrunchreported that Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri made the announcement on stage at the Wired25 conference on Saturday....

LG sues TCL for alleged LTE patent infringement LG Electronics has filed lawsuits againstTCL, the Chinese manufacturer behind the BlackBerry, Palm and Alcatel rebranded Android handsets, alleging infringement of its LTE patents. The filings have been made in the German district courts of Mannheim and Düsseldorf. LG said in astatement: “The lawsuits allege that TCL knowingly implemented technologies in its handsets that infringe three of LG’s standard essential patents that cover key areas of LTE handsets: minimizing the loss of packet transmission, control timers for uplink synchronization and interference reduction in the uplink synchronizing process....

Samsung Galaxy Watch Active 2 review Expert’s Rating Our Verdict With two-day battery life, excellent design, and fitness features that don’t overpower the overall experience, the Galaxy Watch Active 2 is one of the best smartwatches you can buy for an Android phone. In deciding not to run Google’s Wear OS platform on its smartwatches, Samsung has managed to make a solid line of wearables running Tizen OS. The Galaxy Watch Active 2 is an excellent implementation of this maturing software inside premium hardware, even if it’s a little confused as to what it should be....

Get free access to military & civilian records with FindMyPast To celebrate Remembrance DayFindMyPastis offering free access to its entire library of more than 85 million military records, plus all its civilian records. The offer is open until 12 noon on Monday 11 November. If you miss this offer, FindMyPast also offers a14-day free trial. Many of us are proud to have ancestors who served in the Armed Forces, but that doesn’t always mean we know the details about where they were stationed, in which battles they fought, or which decorations they were awarded....