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 ...

If someone hands you a cable, make sure you double-check.

Now you can use your favorite XLR microphone anywhere and even record with it to an iPhone by using the new Shure MVX2U Gen 2, probably the smallest and lightest USB audio interface. Microphone giant ...

Like all technology, USB has evolved over time. Despite being a "Universal" Serial Bus, in its 18-or-so years on the market it has spawned multiple versions with different connection speeds and many, ...

Every time the USB Implementers Forum posted a new set of logos describing ever more USB speeds, electrical power possibilities, and display parameters, it resulted in an outpouring of confusion, ...

Sometimes when you’re making a PCB that you plan on programming over USB, but you only plan on plugging in a couple of times, it would be nice to make that connection without another BOM item. Over on ...

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 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 ...

Powering external devices directly from a PC’s I/O ports has been a thing long before USB was even a twinkle in an engineer’s eye. Some of us may remember the all too common PS/2 pass-through leads ...

Modern USB devices are secretly still using this 40-year-old tech ...

As robotic systems evolve toward higher autonomy, richer perception, and greater scalability, the connectivity technologies ...