After launching a privacy-focused smartphone called the Brax3 a few years ago, Brax Technologies is expanding its hardware lineup with a new tablet called the open_slate. It's a tablet that puts privacy and user choice front and center, with features like hardware kill switches, support for multiple operating systems, and a user-replaceable battery and storage, among other things. Brax…

Murena is a company that sells smartphones and tablets loaded with /e/OS, an open source, Android-based operating system that's been stripped of Google apps and services. But most of the Murena devices you can buy are actually existing products like Fairphone or Google Pixel devices that have had their default operating systems replaced. A few years ago the company did introduce a branded phone called the…

It's been more than two years since SanDisk announced plans to launch 4TB SD cards based on the SDUC standard. They haven't actually arrived yet, so take this next part with a grain of salt, but during the Computex show in Taiwan earlier this month, SanDisk indicated that those 4TB SDUC cards really are coming soon... along with even larger 8TB cards. Unfortunately they won't be much use unless you've got compatible hardware, because you'll need a new card reader that supports the latest standard. SDUC card readers are backward compatible, meaning they can read older cards.