The tech world has finally coalesced around a charging standard, after years of proprietary adapters and ugly wall-wart power supplies. USB-C is in the process of replacing them. But, in a brilliant ...

The Universal Serial Bus (USB) is one of today's most useful and prevalent connection methods. So many electronic components in the market—from cameras to computers to cell phones—have USB-enabled ...

Is there any software required to use USB speakers (like LC Presario USB speakers)? How exactly these speakers work? If we connect the speakers to USB port, how does the sound card come into the ...

How does USB Power Delivery (USB-PD) technology work? What choices do design engineers have in terms of component selection? How does it relate to the USB Type-C part? T. K. Hareendran provides ...

USB charging is shrouded in mystery -- which is a bit ironic, given that almost all of us rely on USB charging of our smartphones and tablets on a daily basis. Why, for example, does an iPhone ...

Powering external devices directly from a PC’s I/O ports has been a thing long before USB was even a twinkle in an engineer’s eye. Some of us may remember the all too common PS/2 pass-through leads ...

Original point still stands: USB-C went from the greatest idea in the history of computer ports to a complete and total clusterfuck within three years. Click to expand... How? It's a universal ...

Editor's take: Achieving 80 Gbps of bandwidth over copper cabling is an impressive feat, but passive cables capable of those speeds will be limited to under 1 meter. Meanwhile, the naming convention ...