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If you have ever taken a close look at the side of your laptop or the back of your desktop, you've probably noticed that not every USB port looks the same. Some are black, others are blue, red, yellow ...

Close up of a laptop's ports, showing an HDMI, a USB-A, a USB-C, and a MicroSD port - Akmeena777/Shutterstock Staying true to the word universal in its name, USB ports can be found everywhere you look ...

If you've ever looked at a computer or a phone charging brick and wondered why some USB ports are different colors, you're ...

The USB Implementers Forum, the organization responsible for certifying USB technology, has never assigned an official meaning to purple USB ports. Yet millions of laptops and desktops ship with ...