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 ...

Shelby Brown (she/her/hers) is an editor for CNET's services team. She covers tips and tricks for apps, operating systems and devices, as well as mobile gaming and Apple Arcade news. Shelby also ...

A cell phone can be a handy business tool, allowing you to sync a variety of important data, including professional documents, business proposals, lecture notes and video tutorials, directly from your ...

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.

When you're getting ready to plug an external hard drive or USB flash drive into your favorite device, you have a choice to make. That's because most computers have multiple USB ports, and despite ...

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 ...

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: ...