Remember, regardless of how premium a USB cable is, charging and data transfer speeds also depend on how much power a USB port can deliver. The naming scheme on USB generations and technologies ...

Those ports could just be more USB-C ports for charging and data, or USB-A for legacy gear or HDMI and DisplayPort for ...

While USB Type-C and USB4 may look interchangeable on a store's page, they're not. Type-C refers to the connector pin used, ...

For example, a USB-C cable that is fine for charging but a dog in data transfer will show up as being wired only for USB-C 2.0, as you can see below by the green LEDs.

In this first part of a series on USB-C, [Andreas Spiess] takes us through the theory of USB-C and USB Power Delivery (PD), as well as data transfer with USB-C cables.

USB-C solutions The tricky part about planning ahead in this situation is that not all USB-A to USB-C cables support data transfer.

While the size and shape of USB ports are universal, the colors are not. That's why you'll sometimes have blue ports, black ...

The small square holes on either side of a USB connector aren't just aesthetic quirks. They're a mechanical feature to ...