USB has become as much a standard for connecting power to portable devices as it has for serial communication. Recently, the power aspects of USB have been extended to cover battery charging as well ...

USB-C isn’t universal. The tiny symbols tell the truth—if you know them.

Doug Dyment, Computer Access Technology CorpAll peripherals connect to the Universal Serial Bus through hubs. How you design a USB hub depends on the purpose you want it to serve. The Universal Serial ...

Over the last five years or so there has been a quiet take-over of the ports on laptops, phones, and other devices, as a variety of older ports as well as the familiar USB A and micro USB sockets have ...

Editor’s note: This article is part of our roundup of USB-C battery packs. The simplest way to discuss electrical power is in units of volts (V), current measured in amperes or amps (A), and watts (W) ...