A new behind-the-scenes teaser for the stupendous-looking mechfest Pacific Rim has appeared on YouTube, detailing one of the film’s coolest plot conceits — how two human pilots merge their consciousness to drive each mega-robot and fight off deep-sea alien monsters. The first trailer we saw back in December turned everyone here at CNET into slavering …

Oh thank heavens this embargo is up! Now it’s gone 11am Central European Time, I can finally share with you some incredibly exciting news. The Porsche Design P’9981 — a luxury phone you’ll fondly remember coming out in 2011 — is now available in a “strictly limited” gold edition! The P’9981 Gold is a Porsche-designed BlackBerry, but it eschews such …

Delighted by your glorious new Galaxy S4, but disgusted by having to plug it into the mains to charge it? Plugophobes rejoice! There’s a new back cover for your Samsung smart phone that lets you plop it onto a pad and — bing bong — it’s slurping juice like a 4-year-old in a soft-play centre. Phone flogger MobileFun is offering …

Movie streaming and download service Acetrax is being shut down by owner Sky on 21 June — so if you’ve bought films through it you need to download them pronto. The Swiss company was bought by Sky in May 2012, and is best known in the UK for its smart TV apps, which let you stream films directly to tellies …

Amazon’s great TV commissioning experiment has picked new TV shows for its Lovefilm streaming service, with John Goodman-starring political satire Alpha House and Silicon Valley sitcom Betas set for full series online, Reuters reports. Meanwhile, zom-com Zombieland, a follow-up to the Woody Harrelson movie of the same name, has taken an axe to the brainbox after fans panned it. “I’ll …

Google is powering up Android gaming with a bunch of cool new features, including leaderboards, easy multiplayer and achievement, collectively called Google Play game services. Announced today at Google I/O, the software giant’s developer conference, the new features will let Android game makers bake in the kind of social features iPhone gamers are used to with Game Center. But it’s …

LG has long been our go-to gadget maker for bonkers phones, with its see-through phones, ultra-wide phones, slo-mo phones and even an ahead-of-its-time watch phone — but this might be the craziest thing it’s made yet. This bendy 5-inch screen is LG Display’s first OLED screen made of plastic, meaning it’s flexible, and crucially for mobile devices, much less vulnerable …

Ofcom has criticised the quality of subtitling on live TV shows, proposing a short time delay to improve the situation. “Viewers have made clear that there are continuing problems with the speed, synchronisation, accuracy and presentation of live TV subtitling,” the UK communications regulator says. It’s asking broadcasters what they would think of “the feasibility of delaying live programmes for …

Prolific French bargain-basement filler Archos has a new 3G Android tablet out — and in line with the rest of the company’s low-cost devices, the Archos 80 xenon is cheap as frites. The 80 xenon is an 8-inch slate with built-in 3G for surfing the Web on the go, and it’ll set you back just £160. Unlike many budget manufacturers, …

Android 4.3, the next update to Google’s world-conquering mobile software, will come out on 10 June, according to Android and Me’s Taylor Wimberly. Wimberly went hands-on with the heavily tipped but so far unannounced white version of the Nexus 4, and whichever unnamed Google-related bod had the snowy blower revealed that 4.3 will start rolling out next month. That’s all …