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 ...

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Have a USB device near you? Look closely at the port -- do you see a color? It turns out that it actually means something. There's a standardized ...

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If you've ever looked closely at the USB ports on your computer, motherboard, or docking station, you might've noticed they're not all the same color. Black, blue, teal... and sometimes, bright red.