Bitcoin may have hit historic highs in December 2017, but just one month into the new year, investors are feeling the pinch of a major correction. Following a slight dip towards the end of last year, bitcoin has crashed hard in the weeks that followed, leading to a fall in market cap of more than $80 billion. Although bitcoin and other cryptocurrency prices are regularly discussed in terms of individual token prices, the sheer number of tokens out there means that the entire market of any individual cryptocurrency can be worth billions....

Director Dan Trachtenberg’sPreynot only revived the Predator franchise with its story of a Comanche hunter battling a terrifying alien hunter, but it also earned thebest reviews of the entire film series. Released on Hulu in August,Preyis set in 1719 and features one of the Predator franchise’s titular extraterrestrials testing its mettle against a variety of wild animals — including a wolf and bear — before challenging the human inhabitants of the region....

California thief repeatedly steals old man’s plane & returns it better than they found it An elderly man in California is at his wit’s end. His Cessna Skyhawk keeps getting stolen over and over again by a mysterious pilot who has evaded police detection entirely. Every time it gets flown, the plane gets returned to a nearby airfield and, outside of some cigarettes and spare trash being in the cockpit, it often returns to its owner in better shape than it left....

Can you play The Crew Motorfest offline? The Crew Motorfest has almost arrived and players are keen to get behind the wheel of Ubisoft’s latest racing sim but will you have the option to play offline? Here’s everything you need to know about whether or not a constant internet connection is required to enjoy the game. The latest installment in Ubisoft’s The Crew franchise,The Crew Motorfest, is set to be the most expansivegameyet with a huge amount of content for players to enjoy....

Developer Ubisoft has caused controversy by announcing upcoming changes to its gameTom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege. The game was released in 2015 togenerally positive reviews, and has since been regularly updated with DLC and expansion packs. According toan Ubisoft blog post, the latest round of updates mean that the new version of the game will be “a single, global version” that has been streamlined in order to increase efficiency on the development side....

Advances in TV technology that were on display at CES were exciting, astounding, and, in one case, “just what people have been waiting for.” Digital Trends’ Greg Nibler interviewed Caleb Denison, the site’s entertainment and home theater editor, on all the top new TV tech, as well as what factors led to the Sony Bravia A1E being chosen for the Digital Trends CES 2017 Best of Show Award for Home TVs....

Summary Premiering on Disney Channel on June 28,ZOMBIES: The Re-Animated Seriesputs a spin on Disney’s belovedZombiesfranchise. When the Seabrook crew is transported to an alternate timeline, they’re given the chance to redo their senior year of high school. Milo Manheim andThe Winchesters' Meg Donnellyare back as Zed and Addison, and they’re joined by their friends Eliza, Willa, Wyatt, Wynter, A-spen, and Bree. The characters are all determined to make the best of the opportunity, but the second time around may be just as difficult to navigate as the first....

The launch of the most recentStar Trekseries,Strange New Worlds,marks the sixth newStar Trekshow to drop in the last five years — as many as there were during the first 40 years of the franchise. Given that the streaming service Paramount + is usingStar Trekas a flagship brand as it grows and develops its service (it launches in the U.K. and South Korea in June), it makes sense that it would lean into moreStar Trektelevision....

Summary TheHunger Gamesmovie franchise was lucky to have Donald Sutherland playing the primary villain of President Coriolanus Snow, whose best scenes offer the most poignant illustration of the tyranny the characters are fighting. Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) finds herself at the center of a conflict over the dystopian country of Panem, wherePresident Snow — and in a secondary sense, President Alma Coin (Julianna Moore) — embody corrupted power, committing heinous acts to maintain that power....

In a few short weeks, we should have the first batch of next-gen gaming laptops rolling out. Nvidia promised we’ll see machinesthat were announced at CESin February, and we’ve already gotten a good taste of the notebooks that will define the list of thebest gaming laptopsfor the next year. But you shouldn’t wait to buy one. AMD, Nvidia, and Intel all have next-gen components to power 2023’s gaming laptops, and they’re sure to bring a leap in performance....

Ray tracing is one of the most exciting new capabilities of theXbox Series X. Brought to market by Nvidia’sRTX range of graphics cards, ray tracing adds a new level of depth and realism to games. Instead of using predetermined lighting points or shadow maps, ray tracing follows each simulated photon of light, rendering reflections, shadows, and lighting overall in a more true-to-life way. The problem is that ray tracing is extremely demanding, so not every game supports it....

A recentFederal Communications Commission (FCC) filingspotted byThe Vergereveals plenty of photos of what appears to be a new kind oftrue wireless earbudfrom Bose — one that eliminates the traditional in-ear design and replaces it with a small speaker held in place by an earhook. The documents refer to them as the Bose Sport Open Earbuds. Unlike the company’s most recent true wireless earbuds, theBose QuietComfort EarbudsandSport Earbuds, which use touch-based gestures for control, the Sport Open Earbuds feature small physical buttons on each bud....

Your neighbors may adorn their walls with taxidermied deer heads, but you don’t bother with such small prey. To really show off your dominance in the animal kingdom, you do not showcase mammals, but opt for giant, prehistoric reptiles. Even if you’re not a big, big gamer hunter, you’re able to now purchase agiant dinosaur headto mount on your wall. It’ts available through the Prop Shop division of ticketing company Fandango....