Swapping GND and Vbus weren’t the only problem – the SuperSpeed wires were missing ... the specs for Cat6 cables. That’s shady manufacturing, but it won’t break a computer.

Cable spinning began in October 1935. To create the cables, Roebling developed a method called parallel wire construction. The innovative technique enabled a cable of any length and thickness to ...

As part of his computer science curriculum at Texas A&M University in the early 2000s, [Paul Krizak] took a computer architecture course on the basics of their functioning. This and being exposed ...