The USB Implementers Forum, the organization responsible for certifying USB technology, has never assigned an official meaning to purple USB ports. Yet millions of laptops and desktops ship with ...

Close up of a laptop's ports, showing an HDMI, a USB-A, a USB-C, and a MicroSD port - Akmeena777/Shutterstock Staying true to the word universal in its name, USB ports can be found everywhere you look ...

USB, short for Universal Serial Bus, ports are designed to connect two distinct, yet compatible, electronic devices. For example, you can plug a mouse cable into a computer's USB port. Most modern ...

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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Have a USB device near you? Look closely at the port -- do you see a color? It turns out that it actually means something. There's a standardized ...