If you have ever glanced at the back of a laptop or the front panel of a desktop and spotted a USB port with an orange insert ...

That colorful bit of plastic you may have noticed tucked inside many USB ports is often more than meets the eye. In addition to insulating tiny contact pins that enable a USB connection for your most ...

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Have a USB device near you? Look closely at the port -- do you see a color? It turns out that it actually means something. There's a standardized ...

If you have ever noticed that a USB port is orange, you may be wondering why exactly. The answer is a bit complicated, but we'll break it down for you.

If you've seen your fair share of laptop and desktop computers, you may have noticed that some USB ports have a brightly colored bit of plastic in the middle. It's easy to assume this is just a ...