Real power is finally coming to USB. The USB 3.0 Promoter Group has approved a new standard for the ubiquitous port, which will deliver enough wattage to power and charge the average laptop computer.

We’ve been recently looking into USB 2.0 – the ubiquitous point-to-point communications standard. USB 2 is completely different from USB 3, the blue-connector next-generation USB standard. For ...

The USB standard is touted for its ability to connect devices of all types with uniform consistency, however it's not quite as universal as it may seem.

Why different if look the same?

The USB-IF has announced the very latest (and super-fast) USB4 Version 2.0 standard, which is a major update to the USB standard that unleashes a huge 80Gbps of performance over USB-C connectivity.

I really only want one thing from a USB standard: "If the cable has this connector, then it does 100% of everything this connector is capable of, no exceptions." Converging thunderbolt and usb 4 is ...