I f you've been using computers for more than a couple of decades, you've probably used a serial port to attach peripherals like your mouse and modem. Until the USB standard rendered them obsolete ...

The USB-IF then introduced a few updates to USB 3.0, which resulted in a branding change. In 2013, USB 3.0 was renamed USB 3.1 Gen 1, and a new 10 Gbps version was introduced as USB 3.1 Gen 2.

A serial port on a PC is a male 9-pin connector (DE-9 D-sub). Early PCs had two 9-pin connectors or one 9-pin and one 25-pin (DB-25). On a PC, serial ports are called "COM ports," identified as ...

When you think about serial communications, Microsoft Excel isn’t typically the first program that springs to mind. But this spreadsheet has a rather powerful scripting language hidden away i… ...

Just because new computers no longer include the venerable serial port doesn’t mean it’s dead. In fact, the serial port is still thriving in many test instruments, industrial controls and medical ...

A shared channel that transmits data one bit after the other over a single wire or fiber; for example, Ethernet uses a serial bus architecture. The I/O bus from the CPU to the peripherals is a ...

USB ports aren’t as simple as they look. This guide decodes every symbol so you know exactly what each port can do for speed, power, and data.