Adam and Alex let loose some magma-hot takes on the little metal bits that connect and power all our gadgets. I have a visceral hatred of MicroUSB. Back when I was writing about Android phones, there ...

USB adapters with ports for connections you haven't seen in years, like Micro-USB or Apple's Lightning cables, should probably find their way to the trash.

Universal Serial Bus (or USB) is a versatile interface that's used in all sorts of devices — from smartphones to lifestyle products — to deliver data, power, and video signals. Most commonly, we see ...

Most people have a drawer or cabinet filled with USB cables for all the devices in their lives. Keeping track of which cable is which can be a nightmare, especially when it comes to USB cables with ...

If you have ever plugged in an external SSD and watched it crawl at 40 MB/s, then blamed the cable, the port, the drive, and ...

From flagship phones to budget laptops and even handheld gaming consoles, the same small oval port now stares back at you from almost every new gadget. The shift to USB-C is not a passing fad but the ...

The date of this article’s initial appearance in EDN is intriguing for another reason; it arrived 4.5 years ahead of the publication of the version 1.0 specification for USB Type‑C, aka USB-C, and ...