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 ...

The USB 3.0 ports on your laptop may be great for transfer speed, but it turns out these ports may also be causing ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. As foreign as the idea has become over the years, there once was a time when computers' I/O panels were littered with many different standard ...

Apple’s vanilla iPhone 17 and iPhone Air models still offer USB 2.0 data transfer speeds. Apple has limited the higher USB 3.0 transfer speeds on the iPhone 17 Pro and 17 Pro Max variants. The iPhone ...

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 ...

We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: USB-C is confusing. A USB-C port or cable can support a range of speeds, power capabilities, and other features, depending on the specification used.

Apple has dragged the iPhone kicking and screaming into the USB-C era, but with an embarrassingly antiquated USB protocol. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...