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The first USB port hit the market in 1996, and the Universal Serial Bus quickly became the go-to port for connecting peripheral devices to computers. It remains a popular connection port today, with ...

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If you've been using computers for more than a couple of decades, you've probably used a serial port to attach peripherals like your mouse and modem. Until the USB standard rendered them obsolete in ...

Automakers are holding cars at port left and right over tariff worries, but Mazda is making the same move for a very different reason: Large numbers of the 2025 MX-5 Miata, quite possibly the greatest ...