I still haven’t met a person who likes cleaning. And if untangling power cords is part of the task, it’s even more arduous. Which led me to wonder whether we really need so many cables. We live in age ...

We can all agree that there’s nothing more frustrating than a drawer full of tangled cords or cables. Extension cords, charging cables, HDMI cables, you name it — all just jumbled in such a mess that ...

To the casual observer, it might seem easy to spin off a group of cable TV network companies from those bigger media conglomerates. But the underlying task is to figure out how to disentangle those ...

This article was updated March 31, 2023. It was originally published Jan. 8, 2016. Engineers and designers who don’t regularly work with CAT data of cables, and even some that do, can get confused ...