USB

Modern solid-state backup drives should be two things -- fast and light -- and WD's My Passport SSD is both of those, but is it the fastest external solid-state drive out there?

Every so often we walk past a product we've not heard of and just go "yes", and this week that goes to IKEA.

It's on so many gadgets. It's on phones, tablets, computers, and speakers. What is USB Type C, and why does it look just like Thunderbolt 3?

The Surface desktop is posing some serious competition for Apple, and now we know what Apple thinks of it: look out, Surface, there's more powerful iMac coming.

Apple's all-new MacBook only comes with that weird new USB format, the thin one that looks kind of like Apple's Lightning port. That means you need to buy new accessories, but do you need to buy them from Apple?

There's a new plug port on its way to more phones and more laptops, and the idea is making it possible to connect the same accessories to everything. Unfortunately, being new means there aren't many devices that do this, but Kensington is on the ball with a few to do just that.

For over a decade, the thumb-sized flash drive has been made for practically any computer, and provided you had a USB port, you were pretty much guaranteed to read it. Today, though, that could be a different thing.