As the new USB type attempts to replace millions of old charging components, the world of ports has quickly transformed into a sea of version numbers and cable designs. It’s a lot to untangle, ...

We’ve now had at least five years of USB-C ports in our devices. It’s a standard that many manufacturers and hackers can get behind. Initially, there was plenty of confusion about what we’d actually ...

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USB, short for Universal Serial Bus, powers most of your gadgets, smartphones and headphones. But as USB standards have evolved over time, this has often lead to some confusion among users. Currently, ...

Yes. There's the regular USB 1.1 / 2 cables and USB 3 cables. They have different connectors which sometimes fit with an older port and sometimes they don't. But if they do, the devices are limited to ...

Thunderbolt 3 and USB-C are frequently mentioned in the same breath, making understanding the difference between the two quite challenging for the average person. Both are hardware connection ...

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USB has come a long way since the 12Mbps days of the ’90s. It has waved goodbye to USB-B and is inching away from USB-A in favor of the slim, reversible USB-C connector. Data transfer rates have ...