Connecting two computers with a specific type of Universal Serial Bus (USB) cable allows you to transfer files or other data directly from one machine to another. Transfer speeds are limited to the ...

The HDMI ports you're not using for streaming sticks or video game consoles can be used to level up your PC or TV setup with ...

For more than a year Intel has talked about graduating from copper wires to fiber optics for Thunderbolt ports on Apple’s Mac computers, and Sumitomo Electric Industries has became one of the first ...

Whether your PC is old or new, here's what all those ports do. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Add us as a preferred source on ...

While HDMI is fine for TVs, DisplayPort is the true native language of PC gaming, offering the path of least resistance to ...

This week I added USB 2.0 ports and FireWire ports to my computer. Then I hooked my digital camcorder up to a FireWire port and using Nero software transferred my first digital video to my computer.

While the FPC connector on the Raspberry Pi 5 makes it possible to add hardware like PCIe NVMe adapters, a whole bunch of USB ports, or extra Ethernet ports, it’s worth keeping in mind that the ...

Turn on the HDMI port on your HP computer to send both the video and audio from your HP computer to an external TV, monitor or speaker system. While the screen on your computer is sufficient for ...

If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. Over the past year or so, one of the biggest tech stories has been about one of the smallest things: ...

The chipmaker wants to replace today's hodge-podge of copper cables with a single type of optical connection--and hopes standardization will help it catch on. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from ...