If you want the best performance, the rule is simple: Avoid USB-A. Don't buy a USB-A charging brick, and don't buy USB-A to USB-C cables for your high-power devices. Stick to a full USB-C ecosystem — ...

If you’ve been following along our USB-C saga, you know that the CC wire in the USB-C cables is used for communications and polarity detection. However, what’s not as widely known is that there are ...

thanks to everyone’s great feedback, i’ve now got a usb battery that’s much more efficient and capable of delivering more current to a portable device. like i promised, i put together a slick little ...

The changes to Maps in iOS 6 may have gotten the lion’s share of negative coverage since the iPhone 5 debuted. But back on September 12, when the company announced the latest iPhone and iPod models, ...

As mentioned in a recent post, one of the motivations for my acquisition of a Google Chrome OS-based Pixelbook is that it’ll enable me to do a hands-on evaluation of its latest-generation external ...

I think I've seen both eg the more typical 5 pin on most Cameras MP3 players etc and then the 4 pin that comes on the Pentax Optio S4 for example.

The USB specification introduced a simple and inexpensive infrastructure for easily connecting multiple external peripherals to a PC. That was several years ago; today, more than 500 million ...

Essentially, the Corsair Flash Padlock is the same conceptual gear as what kept your high school locker free from prying eyes — a combination lock. It’s very much a traditional thumb drive with a pull ...

The keypad requires a user-created PIN code to unlock, so unauthorized access is out of the question. And with USB 3.0 technology, you get blazing-fast read and write speeds for quick transfers ...

If you do, then you're in luck, thanks to the Suptronics X1013 expansion board for the Raspberry Pi 5, which adds ten USB ...

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