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 ...

USB-C’s singular selling point is universality ... VCR or Nintendo using RCA cables (a braid of two or three colored round plugs). Then came component video (similar braids with various colors ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

Trying to plug in a USB cord is kind of a nightmare. One of USB's creators has explained why. Jason Parker has been at CNET for nearly 15 years. He is the senior editor in charge of iOS software ...

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 ...