Sure, home extension cords and power strips are handy, but they also result in thousands of preventable fires each year. Here ...

A $50 USB-C cable tester revealed which of my cables were actually useless. I happily got rid of them and haven't looked back.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Wi-Fi is a way a life. Between smartphones and laptops, even within our homes, we expect to be connected wherever we are. It's a powerful resource, but not a perfect one. I'm sometimes at the mercy of ...

Iran claims it will charge US tech companies fees for using undersea Internet cables that run beneath the contested Strait of Hormuz shipping lanes. The war has already halted multiple projects and ...

DUBAI, April 28 - Iran warned last week that submarine cables in the Strait of Hormuz were a vulnerable point for the region's digital economy, raising concerns about potential attacks on critical ...

In my testing, it quickly charged everything from my M1-powered MacBook Air and my iPhone 16 to multiple e-readers. In my testing, it quickly charged everything from my M1-powered MacBook Air and my ...

There’s a reason we’re called WIRED. If there’s one thing most of today's gadgets have in common, it’s that they typically need to be plugged in from time to time. But all those cables, cords, and ...

About the time Dick Cable retired from being an anchor for KXTV in June 1998, his retirement party was held in a place that might have seemed unusual: Safetyville, where generations of Sacramento-area ...

Whether you’re using it for data transfer or charging a phone, tablet or laptop, a USB-C cable is a pretty crucial accessory. We’ve spent the last few weeks testing an assortment of USB-C cables, and ...

A heaping pile of tangled cords is an eyesore. In a tech-centered world, chargers, power strips, Internet cords, and connectors abound. But there’s nothing cute or calming about them. In fact, they ...

Undersea cables carry hundreds of terabits of international data per second, including government communications, financial transactions, email, video calls and streaming. Investment into new subsea ...