Look around your house and chances are you have at least a few devices that use Universal Serial Bus. On average, some 3 billion USB ports are shipped each year, making it by far the most successful ...

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Read part 1 of this series on the basics of transmitter and receiver testing for the latest version of USB and part 3 on power delivery. For all of its virtues around plug-and-play device ...

A Mashable Choice Award is a badge of honor, reserved for the absolute best stuff we’ve tested and loved. I have never nerded out so hard over a USB cable the way I am over Winnergear's MicFlip ...

USB has been on our desktops and laptops since about 1997 or so, and since then it has been the mainstay of computer peripherals. No other connector is as useful for connecting mice, keyboards, ...

One particularly conscientious Google engineer, Benson Leung, is currently on an unusual mission: he’s slowly working his way through a bunch of USB Type-C cables and adaptors stocked by Amazon, to ...

Update March 9th 2015: Apple has confirmed its radical new MacBook will be the first mass market device to fit USB Type-C. Just one port will single-handedly replace the power, video and data ports, ...

Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and thousands of reviews, features and blog posts. He writes CNET's popular Cheapskate blog and co-hosts Protocol 1: A Travelers Podcast (about the TV show ...

A USB-C cable is a recent type of USB connector that's easier to use and more powerful than older USB types. USB-C cables can be used to quickly charge many popular devices, including the MacBook Pro ...

The Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus is finally here! The device we’ve been waiting for for a year now. There are some notable changes, but the one that people will notice most — if they’re coming from an old ...