C, and USB Type-B ports all provide data transfers and power delivery, though the latter is much less common on modern ...

I was looking at power boards in a hardware shop yesterday and noticed that a) many of them had USB sockets, and that b) the ratings for the USB sockets varied widely, from 1A to 3A. If I wanted to ...

The Universal Serial Bus, or USB for short, was introduced in 1996 as a solution by technology giants like Microsoft and IBM. The idea was to make connecting hardware to computers less of a hassle and ...

In the six months that have passed after the last USB-C article has been released, I have thought up a bunch of ways that these articles could have been improved. It’s, of course, normal to have such ...

USB ports have quietly turned into the default power outlet for phones, laptops, headphones, and even monitors, but the ...

In a USB function – an embedded device with a USB interface – there is a USB peripheral controller chip. As shown in Figure 2, this chip has two key functions: it interfaces to the USB system ...

USB 3.0 was launched back in 2008. This new edition has more functions and better features included in the port. Although it looks just like a simple data cable port, it actually makes a lot more ...

For a quarter of a century, the USB port has been a faithful old friend. Connecting and powering our everyday gadgets and peripherals, all we've ever needed to do was plug them in and watch it all ...

“The best charger is the one that shipped with your laptop” is old advice that needs updating because there are often superior options available either as your principal laptop charger, as a spare, or ...

This story has been updated. When Don Stovicek set out to buy a fast USB 3.0 flash drive, he discovered that the advertised speeds fell well below even USB 2.0’s official capabilities. The now-aging ...

Following on from its vertical-mount long-life USB A-type sockets (photo centre), GCT has announced a pair of horizontal-mount extended-life USB A connectors – with added current capacity – aiming ...