There are lots of abbreviations and standards surrounding USB ports, and EPR is one of them. Here's what it means and ...

First introduced in 1970, parallel ports were originally designed to connect business computers to printers. With their inclusion on the IBM PC in the early 1980s, they became an industry standard.

Your MacBook has multiple USB ports, some of which look identical. Here's what to keep in mind when connecting your devices, ...

With DisplayPort 2.0 support, next-generation USB technology should help PC makers banish another port starting in 2021. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, ...

We’ve now had at least five years of USB-C ports in our devices. It’s a standard that many manufacturers and hackers can get behind. Initially, there was plenty of confusion about what we’d actually ...

USB-C ports are on nearly every new consumer electronic device on the market these days. This is thanks to an EU mandate that forced all tech makers including Apple to ditch its proprietary Lightning ...

One advantage of Apple equipping the latest MacBook Pro models solely with USB-C is that each port can multi-task. Power, video, and data can all pass through an adapter connected to a single port.

The Macs and Windows PCs of a couple of decades ago shared few common connectors. PCs had parallel ports for printers and PS/2 ports for keyboards and mice. Macs used SCSI connections for hard drives ...

Modern laptops come with a dizzying array of ports—or maybe only one, in the case of some extremely svelte ultraportables. But how can you know what they all do, or what you might want in a new system ...

A USB Type C or USB-C connection is primarily used to connect mobile phones, docking stations, or charge your Windows 11/10 PC. Still, unforeseen conditions like hardware-software incompatibility can ...