The worst part about building your own PC? Hooking up the front panel! This quick guide to the connectors will make it less ...

A USB 3.0 connection requires five conductors, and the connectors are blue in color. Backward compatibility is typically provided by including four additional conductors, as shown in the image here.

To quote Wikipedia, “the 24-pin double-sided connector provides four power-ground pairs, two differential pairs for USB 2.0 data bus (though only one pair is implemented in a Type-C cable), four pairs ...

Yes--there are cables that will work at USB 1.1 speeds but not 2.0, in theory, but those cables are not USB 1.1 compliant, because if they were, they would by definition support USB 2.0 also.

The USB Promoters Group and VESA have announced that the new reversible USB Type-C connector, along with supporting power delivery of up to 100 watts, will also support the simultaneous transport ...

According to the USB-IF's press release (PDF), the new connector is "similar in size" to current micro USB 2.0 Type-B connectors (the ones you use for most non-Apple phones and tablets).

FireWire 400 supported speeds of up to 400Mbps, compared to 12Mbps for USB 1.1 devices, and FireWire 800 went up to 800Mbps while USB 2.0 operated at 480Mbps.

The next version of the USB connector will accept the plug either way up, the USB 3.0 Promoter Group said Tuesday. The USB Type-C connector, initially intended for USB 3.1 and 2.0 devices, will be ...

But, you can also have a USB-C cable that is as slow as the ancient USB 2.0 spec. Transferring that same HD movie would take almost two minutes at a speed of 480 megabits per second.

The first phone USB Type C debuts in will unfortunately be using USB 2.0 (remember, that’s due to the controllers, not the connector type), and we don’t know how long it will be until Type C ...