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USB-C, short for Universal Serial Bus Type-C, is a compact, reversible connector used for both power delivery and high-speed data transfer.
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Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 May 2025
Photograph: Tarik Vision/Getty Images The very name, Universal Serial Bus (or USB) is an ambitious promise: One port to rule them all.
—Eric Ravenscraft, WIRED, 3 July 2024
Here’s how to check when there’s nothing printed: Windows: Click the Windows logo or key, search for and open Device Manager, click on Universal Serial Bus controllers.
—Simon Hill, WIRED, 21 Aug. 2023
In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector.
—IEEE Spectrum, 10 Dec. 2022
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Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 May 2025
Photograph: Tarik Vision/Getty Images The very name, Universal Serial Bus (or USB) is an ambitious promise: One port to rule them all.
—Eric Ravenscraft, WIRED, 3 July 2024
Here’s how to check when there’s nothing printed: Windows: Click the Windows logo or key, search for and open Device Manager, click on Universal Serial Bus controllers.
—Simon Hill, WIRED, 21 Aug. 2023
In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector.
—IEEE Spectrum, 10 Dec. 2022
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“Universal Serial Bus.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Universal%20Serial%20Bus. Accessed 22 Jul. 2025.
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