The biggest announcement this hebdomad go to Amazon as the company showcased its tardy array of Alexa - powered speakers and smart display , includingan update to the Echo Show 5 and the vivacious Echo Pop .
This week also sawa new pair of Beats Studio Buds+ with a vapourous blueprint , the final interlingual rendition of iOS 16before iOS 17 is unveiled next calendar month anda launch date for the next Motorola Razr phones .
However , our winner this workweek is Valve as the company extend the trial time period for games on Steam , while Google took the title of loser by revealing an update for inactive accounts .
Winner: Valve
Our victor this week is Valve after the company revealed it will be offering Steam users their first90 - minute - long game trial on the platform .
The tryout invites Steam gamers to play the first hour and a half of this year ’s Dead Space remaking at no charge , have in mind you should be capable to get a good tone for whether or not you like the title before pretermit $ 50 on it .
If you ’re familiar with the way Steam works , you believably roll in the hay that Steam gives users the option to refund games within the first two hours of free rein if they are n’t felicitous with it . While the trial technically throw you 30 minute of arc less meter with the game , it also mean there ’s no need to spend money on that championship only to have it refunded later that 24-hour interval .
This should help gamers to cut down on unneeded purchases and Valve receive less frequent refund request , bring in it a ready to hand system all around .
Dead Space is the first game we ’ve seen this young trialling system of rules applied to on Steam , with this finical offer ending on May 29 . However , we ’re excited to see whether Valve continues to offer 90 - minute trials on other democratic title and how long these trial will stick around once they arrive .
Loser: Google
This news show was announce as part of Google ’s updated still account insurance policy , a policy that gives the company the right to delete any account it deem to be inactive . In this subject , that includes any account that has n’t been used within the last two days .
That means that if you have n’t actively signed into your Google account since 2021 , your photos , written document , email and other data could be at peril of deletion at any consequence .
This is moderately shivery news for anyone currently using a Google account to back up photos , documents and other data from an erstwhile telephone set or laptop .
So what does Google consider an “ active ” account ? basically , doing any of the following actions could make unnecessary your data from being throw up from Google ’s database : sending an email , using Google Drive , watching a YouTube video , divvy up a picture , downloading an app or using Google Search to find results on the web .
Google has been sending email notifications to Google accounts at risk of excision , but if you have n’t signed into that bill in two eld , there ’s a chance you could miss the trim back - off date and risk losing everything .
For this reason , we ’d recommend signing into any Google accounts you have and export any data you would n’t want to see disappear if you do finish up logging out again for an drawn-out catamenia of time .
