What just happened? USB testing devices are now widely available at nearly every price point. A Luxembourg-based engineer decided to take things a step further, creating a high-end tester that packs a ...

Designed for use with shielded USB cables, the CDN USB 3.0 offers testing of all existing USB interfaces. It is compatible with USB versions 1.0, 1.1, 2.0 and 3.0 (also called Superspeed USB) and is ...

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 ...

Update: Leung has resumed testing with a repaired test device, but for now can only weed out bad cables for now as he still doesn’t have a working Chromebook. Google engineer Benson Leung was doing a ...

When Apple announced the MacBook in March, the new USB Type C (USB-C for short) port caused head shaking and chin scratching. Though the standard had been released in September and shown off at the ...

Google software engineer Benson Leung has been testing and reviewing the various third-party USB Type C cables that are sold on Amazon and other vendors for the past few months. With a list of more ...

If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. USB Type-C is undoubtedly the future, thanks to its reversible design, super-fast speed and high ...