If you've ever wondered why so many gadgets made before the mid-2010s used the slim, tapered Micro-USB connector, and why almost everything today has moved to the oval-shaped USB-C port, the answer ...

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You’re sitting there, running your hands over the skin of your shiny new Apple MacBook, Dell XPS, or Microsoft Surface Book laptop. It’s sleek, it’s thin, it’s modern! And then it hits you: Where are ...

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 ...

Having devoted one of last month’s posts to a tutorial on USB’s signaling, connector, and power delivery evolutions toward latest-generation USB-C (USB Type-C, to be precise), I thought it’d be an ...

It’s 2025, and I had to buy a Micro USB to USB-C cable. It’s 2025, and I had to buy a Micro USB to USB-C cable. is a senior reporter and author of the Optimizer newsletter. She has more than 13 years ...