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Image Source : PIXABAY Type C The USB cord market is taking a new avatar and soon we will be witnessing the latest USB 4 version 2.0 which will be capable to deliver a speed of up to 80 Gbps. The speed of the upcoming Type C will be capable to deliver around double the capacity of the original USB 4, or even Thunderbolt 4. The USB Promoter Group has announced the…

Putting aside the undeniable fact that cables shouldn’t actually exist in what is meant to be a wireless world, one of the most frustrating things about cables is their length. Cable manufacturers revel in how long they can make these digital snakes. Who on earth needs a 10-meter USB cable, or even a 2m HDMI cable? You can buy a 3m (10ft) Lightning charging cable. What maniac needs that? There’s a 4.5m (15ft) micro USB cable, which is only acceptable in that most of us want to be as far away as possible from that…

For Linux users, Intel is working on implementing Display-Port Multi-Stream Transport with Display Stream Compression for the very first time in Linux with its Arc GPUs, as reported by Phoronix. This feature will allow users the ability to daisy chain three 4k 60Hz monitors together with DisplayPort 1.4 on Arc graphics, instead of just two. This feature is expected to come soon, and could arrive as early as October with Linux kernel 6.1 if development go smoothly.For reference, this is a Linux-specific update. We aren't…

Image: Gizmodo/Shutterstock (Shutterstock)Gizmodo is 20 years old! To celebrate the anniversary, we’re looking back at some of the most significant ways our lives have been thrown for a loop by our digital tools.Glance at your laptop and you might see a single USB-C cable. The industry is consolidating to a universal interface used for data transfer, display, power delivery, and more. It hasn’t always been that way. Dozens of connectors and standards have come and gone over the past few decades, leaving behind a jumbled…