Two commonly used charging ports might look similar, but one offers more modern features and a future-proof design.

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. To younger computer users, this may come as a shock, but connectivity used to be a lot more complicated. Before USB (short for Universal ...

USB-C is the latest and greatest version of the USB port and receptacle. But have you ever stopped to consider what it means?

The HP TouchPad holds a rather strange place in the history of modern tablet computers. First launched in 2011 as a $500 tablet running webOS 3.0 software, the tablet was canceled just a few months ...

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Thunderbolt and USB-C are the most common ports that are used to connect external devices to a computer or laptop. While their functionality remains more or less the same, they do differ. Thunderbolt ...

First introduced in 1996, the Universal Serial Bus (USB) format was developed to replace the array of proprietary cables and connectors used by devices to connect to personal computers of the era. In ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Over the course of the three decades that the USB connectivity standard has existed, there have been so many variations and revisions of USB ...