E-marker chips should be the one specification you should look out for when buying a USB-C cable.

The reason fast USB-C cables are suspiciously short has nothing to do with manufacturers.

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 ...

This 2-in-1 Anker cable can connect two devices to any USB-C port, whether to charge simultaneously or attach multiple ...

USB-C is the modern connection standard shared by most new devices today. It comes in several different formats—USB-C, USB4 and Thunderbolt—but they all have the same reversible connector at the end ...

Oliver Haslam has been writing about phones, computers, games, and anything else that takes a battery or plugs in for more than he'd like to admit. With a focus on mobile and laptops, Oliver is never ...

The first devices with the USB-C charging port arrived in 2015. Now, USB-C is everywhere—Android phones, laptops, wireless earbuds, mirrorless cameras, gaming consoles, PC monitors, and even electric ...

Let me guess, your USB-C device won’t charge? I’m shocked, shocked I say! Although USB-C has made it easy to plug your cable into your laptop or phone, it hasn’t made it easy to understand when ...

The EU will require device manufacturers to standardize on USB-C, a mandate that mostly effects Apple. The company, whose biggest selling product — the iPhone — uses a proprietary protocol, is ...

Apple may be about to make it harder to use lower cost USB-C cables with its devices, but there are very good reasons it should do so. Apple appears poised to make it more difficult to use cheap USB-C ...

People experience a variety of problems with USB-C. I’ve asked people online about their negative experiences with USB-C, and got a wide variety of responses, both on Twitter and on Mastodon. In ...

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