If you want the best performance, the rule is simple: Avoid USB-A. Don't buy a USB-A charging brick, and don't buy USB-A to USB-C cables for your high-power devices. Stick to a full USB-C ecosystem — ...

If you’ve been following along our USB-C saga, you know that the CC wire in the USB-C cables is used for communications and polarity detection. However, what’s not as widely known is that there are ...

That’s the long version of why my USB-C cable slowed down when plugged in one way and sped back up when I flipped it. When ...

As mentioned in a recent post, one of the motivations for my acquisition of a Google Chrome OS-based Pixelbook is that it’ll enable me to do a hands-on evaluation of its latest-generation external ...

I think I've seen both eg the more typical 5 pin on most Cameras MP3 players etc and then the 4 pin that comes on the Pentax Optio S4 for example.

Mobile PINs are a lot like passwords in that there are a number of very common ones, and [Mobile Hacker] has a clever proof of concept that uses a tiny microcontroller development board to emulate a ...

If you do, then you're in luck, thanks to the Suptronics X1013 expansion board for the Raspberry Pi 5, which adds ten USB ...

Apple has just won a patent, which I totally saw coming a mile away, that seemingly allows for their semi-ubiquitous 30-pin connector to support “DisplayPort (dual lane),” which sounds a lot like the ...

Essentially, the Corsair Flash Padlock is the same conceptual gear as what kept your high school locker free from prying eyes — a combination lock. It’s very much a traditional thumb drive with a pull ...

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