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Should you feel guilty for killing the bugs in your house?

Your Mileage May Vary is an advice column offering you a unique framework for thinking through your moral dilemmas. It’s based on value pluralism — the idea that each of us has multiple values that are equally valid but that often conflict with each other. To submit a question, fill out this anonymous form. Here’s this week’s question from […]

Sereact raises $110 million Series B to build robots that simulate the consequences of their actions before they act


The round is led by Headline, with new investors Bullhound Capital, Felix Capital, and Daphni. Valuation is undisclosed. Sereact’s vision language action models already run in BMW, Daimler Truck, and logistics customers. The $110M is more than four times the €25M Series A raised just 15 months ago. Sereact, the Stuttgart-based AI robotics software company, […]



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A look at what's next for Netflix and Comcast's Peacock after WBD's Paramount acquisition; Nielsen: Netflix had six of the top 10 original streaming shows in Q1 (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)

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A look at what's next for Netflix and Comcast's Peacock after WBD's Paramount acquisition; Nielsen: Netflix had six of the top 10 original streaming shows in Q1  —  The company's streaming service has lost more than $11 billion and can't keep customers form canceling

We're Finally Getting A Sequel To Alien: Isolation, 12 Years Later, And The First Teaser Is Here

Game Informer

Sega released Alien: Isolation nearly 12 years ago, in October of 2014, and to celebrate Aliens' 40th Anniversary yesterday, developer Creative Assembly released a teaser trailer for the sequel. Yes, a sequel is actually/finally happening more than a decade later, which is just enough time for Alien: Isolation, which received mixed reviews at launch, to reach cult-hit status amongst fans of Xenomorphs and retro-sci-fi tech. 

The video is titled "False Sense Of Security," and given its teaser nature, it doesn't reveal too much at all. We see a menu pad with a low-battery light, which turns on with a new battery, before a large hangar door opens, suggesting this sequel might take place on a planet (rather than on a single ship as in Alien: Isolation). That'd be a fitting change for the Xenomorph-stalker horror game, given the first one takes place on a ship (like the first Alien movie) – the sequel movie, Aliens, took Ripley onto an actual planet to open up the horror playground of the infamous Xenomorphs, so we'd love to see the Alien: Isolation sequel do the same. 

Check out the Alien: Isolation sequel teaser for yourself below: 

Though this teaser doesn't necessarily indicate it's for a sequel to Alien: Isolation, Disney Games sent along a press release to say that it is, in fact, for Creative Assembly's sequel to Alien: Isolation, putting any doubt to rest. 

Elsewhere, for Aliens'  40th Anniversary, Disney Games highlights that developer Survios recently released Alien: Rogue Incursion – Part One Evolved Edition for Nintendo Switch 2, noting that a PlayStation 4 version will arrive soon. Plus, Behaviour Interactive announced the Bloodbound Pack for Dead by Daylight, and it will feature Private First-Class William L. Hudson as an Ellen Ripley Skin alongside colonial marine gear when it goes live in-game tomorrow, on April 28. 

While waiting to learn more about this sequel, read Game Informer's Alien: Isolation review, and then read this retrospective about how Creative Assembly built its perfectly evolved AI Xenomorph. 

What do you hope to see in this Alien: Isolation sequel? Let us know in the comments below!

China orders Meta to unwind its $2 billion acquisition of Manus


The NDRC’s Office of the Working Mechanism for Foreign Investment Security Review issued a formal cancellation order on Monday, four months after the deal was announced. Manus co-founders Xiao Hong and Ji Yichao have been barred from leaving China since March.  China’s National Development and Reform Commission has formally ordered Meta to unwind its $2 […]



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