Over the last few years, the USB Type-C® with Power Delivery (PD) standard has been adopted in a wide variety of electronics. This adoption has been driven by benefits such as a unified port (reducing ...

Our phones are now pretty essential when it comes to getting through everyday life—so it can be disconcerting when one of these ever-present pocket companions refuses to charge up as normal. It’s a ...

The dream of carrying one power cable for all your devices is becoming a reality. But things aren’t as simple as they sound. By Brian X. Chen Brian X. Chen, The Times’s personal tech columnist, was ...

Most iPhone owners have felt the frustration of trying to get a malfunctioning charging cable to work again. Typically, a new charger will work for at least a few months — more if you're lucky or ...

USB Type-C is the most flexible connection for notebooks and smartphones. The most important of its many capabilities is as a charging socket for battery-powered devices. USB-C should finally make ...

There’s two cases when hackers have to think about USB-C connector mechanics. The first is when a USB-C connector physically breaks, and the second is when we need to put a connector on our own board.

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. These days, it's not uncommon for people to own more than one gadget. In fact, according to the United Nations Conference on Trade and ...

Apple offers a wide variety of USB-C chargers that correspond to the many models of MacBook, MacBook Air, and MacBook Pro it’s made that remain available or that it offers replacements for. You might ...