Plug Life: 2018 Hyundai Ioniq Plug-In Hybrid Tested

– Hyundai’s trident of Ioniq electrified vehicles—including a conventional hybrid, a full EV, and a new-for-2018 plug-in hybrid—make for a compelling assault on the house of Prius. The Ioniq Electric, currently limited to California, trades on generally agreeable road manners and 124 miles of EPA-estimated range, while the Ioniq hybrid stands toe to toe with […]

Bracing for EV shift, NGK Spark Plug ignites all solid-state battery quest

NAGOYA, Japan – Facing the eventual demise of gasoline engines, the world’s biggest maker of spark plugs is turning its focus to a component it believes will be just as vital in the coming era of electric vehicles – next-generation all solid state batteries. Japan’s NGK Spark Plug Co has for years leveraged its expertise […]

When F2P goes wrong: NCSoft gave latest game five months before pulling plug

Say goodbye to all of your favorite MxM characters, like… uh… that one dude from City of Heroes, and… er… frog-person. (credit: NCSoft) Korean game studio NCSoft took an hours-before-Thanksgiving moment to announce bad news for fans of its most recent game, Master X Master: the free-to-play (F2P) game, which only launched five months ago, […]

JetBlue Just Pulled the Plug on These Online Travel Agencies

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Trump Pulling The Plug On Obamacare 🏥❌

The White House intends to stop providing federal subsidies to help cover the costs of insuring low-income Americans on Obamacare, it announced late Thursday night, just hours after President Donald Trump signed an executive order to dramatically undermine the health care law. “Based on guidance from the Department of Justice, the Department of Health and […]

Pulling The Plug

President Trump, cornered, weakened, and apparently unable to get his hands on the usual levers of presidential powers, has adopted pretty much the worst possible strategy for someone trying to wield the power of the most powerful job in the world: He’s shooting the hostages. Trump can’t seem to get the hard stuff associated with […]

Destiny 2’s open-world design may finally plug the endgame gap

PREVIEW: “Endgame” is typically a design element that we associate with massively multiplayer online role-playing games like Guild Wars 2, Star Wars: The Old Republic, and World of Warcraft. Endgame content preoccupies a player when narrative content and traditional methods of tracking player progression like leveling have tapped out. It’s the endgame content in an […]

This color-coded travel adapter works in over 150 countries and makes figuring out what plug to use easy

The Insider Picks team writes about stuff we think you’ll like. Business Insider has affiliate partnerships, so we get a share of the revenue from your purchase. AmazonThe last and arguably most important thing I do before I leave for a vacation is pack the chargers for my devices I’m bringing with me. In 2017, our tablets and […]

Someone please just let these Marvel fans plug their headphones into a Doritos bag

Marvel has partnered with Doritos to make a limited edition Guardians of the Galaxy 2-branded bag of chips, complete with a makeshift tape deck playing the film’s soundtrack. Good news for chip fans and movie fans, as far as we can see, right? But Marvel fans who were eager to snatch up a bag on […]