USB-C eliminates proprietary barrel plug chargers that we’ve been using for laptops and myriads of other devices. It fights proprietary phone charger standards by explicitly making them non-compliant, ...

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 ...

The $25 cable supports charging at speeds up to 140W and will intelligently share power between two connected devices. The $25 cable supports charging at speeds up to 140W and will intelligently share ...

One thing you should always have in your bag, backpack, or pocket—especially with summer coming up—is a portable power bank. You never know when your battery is going to fail, like when you’re stuck ...

As new USB standards catch on, choices for cables' data rates and power levels will be less confusing, the USB industry group predicts. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

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