Everyone knows about USB cables. Used for everything from transferring important information from one device to another to charging your devices, they are seen everywhere and the USB Type-C Cables are ...

When his parents denied him a Super NES, he got mad. When they traded a prize Sega Genesis for a 2400 baud modem, he got even. Years of Internet shareware, eBay'd possessions and video game testing ...

USB-C cable makers and sellers are everywhere on Amazon, selling thousands of cables a day for a relatively new form of connectivity. USB-C as a technology is perfectly fine, it works very well moving ...

With the brand new USB-Type C connector on the horizon, there are all kinds of companies trying to cash in on selling new cables. For the next few years, until the new port takes over, wires that ...

An engineer at Google has taken up a personal campaign against non-compliant USB-C adapter cables, warning of potential charging problems or device damage. Benson Leung, who worked on Google’s latest ...

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Subpar USB Type-C cables could fry your devices -- just ask that Google engineer who tested a few and ended up losing a Chromebook Pixel 2 to a particularly bad one. In an effort to protect users, the ...

Update, February 3: Benson Leung followed up on his Type C horror story with a more detailed explanation of what happened. Let it forever be a warning to those tempted by off-brand accessories. The ...

Fed up with having to constantly purchase new USB cables due to shoddy manufacturing, Google engineer Benson Leung took it upon himself to begin a program to purchase, test, and review USB-C cables ...

Benson Leung, the Google engineer who moonlights as a tester of dodgy USB Type-C cables, has sadly performed his last act of tech vigilantism—at least for now. When testing a Surjtech 3M USB A-to-C ...

Update: Leung has resumed testing with a repaired test device, but for now can only weed out bad cables for now as he still doesn’t have a working Chromebook. Google engineer Benson Leung was doing a ...

If you’ve been using Android Auto for more than a month or so, you probably know already that running the app on a regular basis typically comes with a pretty high likelihood of bugs. This is because ...