In the 21st century, it is almost impossible to imagine life without electricity. It powers every aspect of our daily lives, ...

Every time I get my desk situated the way I like, another gadget comes into my life — a hazard of the job — and mucks up my neatly arranged cables, turning them into a tangled mess of spaghetti.

The metal pads in question seem to be far too thin and structurally unsound, as one can readily spot, their cross-section is dwarfed by the cross-section of cables soldered to them. This would ...

Fiber-optic lines can deliver faster download and upload speeds using the speed of light with greater reliability and less vulnerability to network congestion than coaxial cables. But if we ...

In this first episode of our broadband coverage, Ryssdal explores what a $42 billion investment in broadband from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law could mean for fiber-optic cable manufacturing ...

Chances are, your cable internet provider charges you a hefty modem-rental fee every month, a price that can increase on an annual basis. But if you buy your own modem, it should pay for itself in ...

USB (Universal Serial Bus) cables are everywhere. If you’ve ever needed to fast charge anything, from smartphones to tablets, to cameras and even newer laptops, you’ve likely needed to use one.

I fell in love with cable driven mechanisms a few years ago and put together some of my first mechanical tentacles to celebrate. But only after playing with them did I start to understand the ...

Buying a new guitar cable is far from the most exciting thing you’ll ever do as a guitarist, but it’s certainly an essential piece of gear you can’t do without. Cheap cables break, usually at the most ...

Here’s how it works. It may not seem necessary at first to focus much on the cables in your hi-fi system, but it can be one of the most important factors in your system's overall performance. After ...

HDMI cables are an essential part of any home entertainment setup. They can connect a wide range of devices to your TV or monitor, from soundbars and streaming boxes to gaming consoles and Blu-ray ...

Unfortunately, Apple didn’t make a first-party USB-A to USB-C cable for this situation. Instead, the company sells a $29 USB-C to Lightning adapter as its official solution. My advice?