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We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The introduction of USB Type-C in 2014 was a welcome change for consumer technology. Users had grown frustrated with the confusing mess of ...

Not all USB-C cables are created equal. We're not talking about a more expensive cable being more durable or using premium ...

The upcoming USB cable design is reversible, has no right-side-up or upside-down problems, and will click when you plug it in. Expect the new design on the market as soon as this year. Stephen ...

I bought the wrong HDMI-to-USB-C cable, and it taught me how direction, port support, and cable type actually matter.

I have a drawer full of USB cables and every time I want to connect a device, I have to try them out. USB-C was supposed to simplify things: One cable for everything, that was the promise. In practice ...

Forte sounds great, integrates seamlessly and, while it's not very original, looks good. High-quality I/O with all Focusrite's preamp and signal conversion know-how. Nicely designed, feature-packed ...

For years I have been wondering when Cisco would activate the USB ports on their devices. I have been hoping for all kinds of USB functionality to routers, switches, firewalls but Cisco has been slow ...

A cable with a USB-C plug at one or both ends often reveals little about what it’s capable of doing. Despite guidelines for labeling set by the USB-IF (the USB trade group) and Intel’s Thunderbolt ...

A Chinese consortium has gotten fed up with HDMI and is proposing GPMI (General Purpose Media Interface) as an alternative. It seems that the plan is a base number of lanes over the USB Type-C as ...