How quickly can this USB cable I've just found in my drawer transfer files? And can I use it to fast charge my smartphone?

The new Adonis USB 4.0 cable from AOHi is aimed at tech enthusiasts, video professionals and content creators. With ...

The classic serial null-modem cable was, among other things, used to connect two computers together for communications and file transfer ... would work in a modern USB environment.

To use it, you connect the cable to both PCs via USB ports and use the included transfer software to select files and folders to move from one computer to the other.

USB-C is one of those things that generally everyone seems to agree on that it is a ‘good thing’, but is it really? In this first part of a series on USB-C, [Andreas Spiess] takes us through ...