Under USB-PD, cables are not trusted by default. If a cable can’t explicitly confirm that it supports higher wattage, the ...

I have a problem with USB 3 and am out of ideas. I have a USB 3.1 hub with a bunch of devices plugged into it including my keyboard. When I copy files from the laptop to an SD card (even at USB 2 ...

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Have you ever wondered if the big charger that powers your laptop can also fill up your phone’s battery? USB-C and Power ...

My hope is slim, but maybe someone here can identify and help me solve this issue. On my Windows 10 machine, copying files to a USB flash drive using Windows Explorer results in extremely slow copy ...

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Last week I spent a few days watching the Asus and Best Buy websites like a hawk, waiting for that slinky little Zenbook A14 to start shipping. It’s a really cool, lightweight laptop with battery life ...

Talking about high-quality USB-C implementations, there’s a product that has multiple selling points designed around USB-C, and is arguably a shining example of how to do USB-C right. It’s the ...

Beware of gaming laptop makers pushing USB-C chargers. While these smaller Gallium Nitride (GaN) units are called alternatives to the honking-big power bricks such laptops usually come with, you’re ...

Thanks to the new Mac laptops only supporting USB-C, any older devices needn’t to connect to the 2020 machines need to go through a hub. This is where the issue is cropping up. Juli Clover reports: ...