Your Favorite Cartoons and Puppets, Redrawn as Horrifying Nightmares

Ernie the Junkie? Finn the shark-toothed monstrosity? Artist Dan LuVisi has imagined a whole new backstory for your favorite heroes and playful puppets. What would Wreck-It-Ralph look like if he fell off the bad-guy wagon? What would Buzz Lightyear look like as a real space bad ass?

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Could a virtual therapist really help with your personal problems?

Ellie may be a computer simulation, but she's incredibly perceptive. By reading the body language and vocal inflections of real live humans, she can engage in surprisingly meaningful exchanges, and even evoke emotional openness from her conversation partners. Her creators believe her receptivity to human emotional…

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A sneak peek inside Guillermo del Toro's Kaiju-killing machines

What's the POV of the Jaeger pilots in Guillermo del Toro's new giant monsters vs. giant robots movie Pacific Rim? We gleaned a collection of images ripped from the new trailer that show off what's happening inside the head of the giant mecha machine.

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Summer TV season is starting, which means television is getting weird. There's a new sitcom where Anne Heche communicates with God. There's a taste of Disney XD's brand new Avengers show. There's new proof that mermaids are real. And there's a documentary about the town whose teen girls got Tourettes Syndrome. Plus tons more!

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Teen trillionaires have problems too in this preview of Green Team #1

Money is its own kind of superpower; just ask Bruce Wayne or Lex Luthor. But when yo aren't a genius or vengeance-fueled vigilante, how can you use it to help people? That's what the Green Team wants to know in this unlikely relaunch of an obscure DC comic from 1975.

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