Your files are done syncing, and you go to plug in your thumb drive. You try once. Failure ensues. Metal clashes with metal. Humiliated and discouraged, you flip it and try again. Failure, again!

One of the selling points of the USB-C plug is that supposedly there is no way to incorrectly insert it. As [Pim de Groot] shows with a ‘Cursed USB-C 2.0 Device‘, reality is a bit more ...

The new USB Type-C connector is currently being designed to be used in thinner and sleeker products such as tablets and ultrabooks It will be fully reversible like Apple's Lightning connector ...

and making a reversible or round plug would have doubled the cost of the USB connector. “A USB that could plug in correctly both ways would have required double the wires and circuits ...

Ajay Bhatt led the team at Intel that created the USB — a near-ubiquitous connection interface that allows users to plug mice, iPods, printers, thumb drives and other devices into a computer.

But that concern could become a ghost of technology past. The USB 3.0 Promoter Group announced that a new connector, USB Type-C, is being developed. "We recognize the need to develop a new ...

The USB-C revolution is well under way, as first your new phone, then your single-board computer, and now your laptop are likely so sport the familiar reversible round-cornered connector.

USB-C introduced simplicity: a simple flat connector with rounded sides that has two correct orientations: the long side can be inserted into a compatible port without checking. It’s used ...

Why aren’t all USB plugs like this? Ma Yi Xuan updates the ubiquitous computer peripheral with idiot-proof ergonomics. BY John Pavlus 1 minute read It happens to me about, oh, 14 trillion times ...