USB Power Delivery (USB-PD) now offers faster, more efficient, and more versatile power handling solutions. As we can all see, it’s an exciting advancement that significantly enhances the capabilities ...

USB ports have quietly turned into the default power outlet for phones, laptops, headphones, and even monitors, but the ...

There is a tendency as we get older, to retreat into an instinctive suspicion of anything new or associated with young people. All of us will know older people who have fallen down this rabbit hole, ...

When the USB standard was first revealed, a few peripherals here and there adopted it but it was far from the “universal” standard implied by its name. It was slow, had limited ability to power ...

With the growing number of devices that most people use today, be it smartphones, smartwatches, laptops, wireless earbuds, and other gadgets, charging them quickly and efficiently becomes important.

How does USB Power Delivery (USB-PD) technology work? What choices do design engineers have in terms of component selection? How does it relate to the USB Type-C part? T. K. Hareendran provides ...

“The best charger is the one that shipped with your laptop” is old advice that needs updating because there are often superior options available either as your principal laptop charger, as a spare, or ...

One of the most positive tech developments of this decade has been the mass adoption of USB-C over the old micro-USB, USB-A, and other lesser-used gadget ports. Whether you’re powering your earbuds, ...

Short version: I’ve got two USB-C hubs that claim to deliver 100 watts of PD power, but they both seem to only deliver 65 watts. Is this the hub manufacturers lying or is this my laptop reducing its ...

If you want to charge your iPhone 12 using MagSafe, Apple recommends using certain 20W AC adapters — and they don't need to come from Apple, despite what you may have heard. We explain what the ...