cables

Best short cables: USB, HDMI, DisplayPort, Ethernet, Power 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- May 31, 2020
Putting aside the undeniable fact that cables shouldn’t actually exist in what is meant to be a wireless world, one of the most frustrating things about cables is their length. Cable manufacturers revel in how long they can make these digital snakes. Who on earth needs a 10-metre USB cable, or even a 2m HDMI
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Railway cables overpowered errant drone’s compass and flung it back to terra firma • The Register 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- May 21, 2020
A commercial drone fell from the sky after a flight across a railway line threw its internal compass into confusion. The Aerialtronics Altura Zenith ATX8 craft crashed into bushes next to a railway line in October 2019, according to a recent Air Accidents Investigation Branch report. The craft’s operator started its flight from a road
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Techie yanked some cables and took Cloudflare’s dashboard and API down for four hours • The Register 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- April 16, 2020
Cloudflare has admitted that a four-and-a-bit-hour outage today was caused by someone pulling out cables that should have been left in place, but which were yanked because techies were given unhelpfully imprecise instructions. The incident started with some “planned maintenance at one of our core data centers” that saw techies told “to remove all the
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Best USB-C Cables for Charging and Syncing 2019 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- March 24, 2019
Image Credit: iStock OK we admit it – cables are dull. Whole articles on them are perhaps even more so. But bear with us, because when it comes to USB-C it’s important to invest in the best possible cables or risk damaging your expensive new equipment. USB-C is emerging as a universal charging and syncing
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How I got horizontal with a gimp and untangled his cables • The Register 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- February 8, 2019
Something for the Weekend, Sir? I spent this week on the floor. This may not sound so unusual given that most of us already conduct our daily lives at floor level – as opposed to gliding, Aereon-like, 12.7mm above it. But save your threats, Necromonger, I would tell you about my week’s exploits for the
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CloviFi transmitter helps free you from cables » Coolest Gadgets 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- February 5, 2019
by Edwin – on February 5th, 2019 We are slowly but surely moving away from different forms of wired devices, from our smartphones that are now able to charge up wirelessly all the way to transmitting video and audio signals sans cables. CloviTek Inc.’s latest wireless device that will hit the market would be the
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