Discount (or even grey market) electronics can be economical ways to get a job done, but one usually pays in other ways. [Majenko] ran into this when a need to capture some HDMI video output ended up ...

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.

With DisplayPort 2.0 support, next-generation USB technology should help PC makers banish another port starting in 2021. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, ...

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 ...

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 ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Ah, USB; where would we be without it? Introduced in the late 1990s as a one-size-fits-all replacement for the handful of ports and ...

The USB Type-C connector and power delivery (PD) specification has brought radical changes to the mobile device industry, and USB Type-C PD 3.0 could optimize battery charging for portable devices.

Sachin Bahal is a freelance tech writer. He has a bachelor's in journalism from Toronto Metropolitan University and studied journalism and photography at Durham College. A tech geek since childhood, ...

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 ...

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