Women in Computer Games according to prevalent stereotypes in the male dominated scene they just walk around in revealing clothing and fight their way to victory the stereotypes were on display at the dreamhouse convention in like. The computer game festival hosts germanys largest black and all local area network posh. Women make up only a small chunk of the seventeen hundred players and they critical of the reductive depictions in games. Id say sex sells big breasts big but its just thats not an accurate depiction of women i cant identify with that at all but i think its nice when you can look at a womans face and see something relatable. Does it would be nice if women werent just small roles but main characters who are taken totally seriously and that puts a number. Today estimates from the scene indicate that women comprise half of all game is. But they have little influence and to scarcely represented even a dream pack only meant you could out of the east ports tournament for around one hundred eighty thousand euros in prize money the u. S. Market Research Company super data says the gaming industry had a worldwide turnover of seventy three billion euros in twenty sixteen but the industry is interested in female gamers as customers which is one reason the citrus starting to shift focus for instance to write as lara croft has changed during her twenty year long korea from a mia busty warrior. To a fully realized it venturous woman more and more games are creating multifaceted characters like al boyd they hear it from horizon zero dawn. X. Or masters from the three d. Adventure game life is strange. Babs these advances are a consequence of game against issues have been hotly debated under this hashtag for years one provocative question how sick system is the gaming industry and must it change one goal of the Game Design Department at the college of technology and economics in berlin is to get more women into the gaming industry itself the fact is that women play games therefore women can also make games and they showed in order to reach a female audience. Here conceptualizing games is a combination of design and technology the students load all the necessary aspects of Gaming Development from the design of a Game Character by hand to the programming of the software forty students are trained each year and half of them a women. Of our students are in demand employers say wed really like to have one of your female graduates because weve noticed they can produce better products here is somebody who has empathy who knows whats required has the technical know how and can apply it. Someone who can develop concepts brings these skills with them and consensus ties their colleagues. Early in Game Development company one third of their approximately two hundred thirty workers a women rebecca how we created the game journey which features a strong heroine these relaxing casual games are often played on phones and to quite popular among women. Bringing in more people to different experiences it can speak to the experiences of people of color to experience. You get more diversity of stories i think its already happening. In particularly in the space where a lot of creators are empowered to tell very personal very specific stories using the medium of. Heartfully its only a matter of time before the diversity of glad increases to. Shift. And now the shifts ranking twenty seven most valuable digital startups. Fifth place. The American Aerospace manufacturer and Space TransportCompany Launched with a net worth of seventeen point two billion euros according to recent information. His partners supply the International Space station their next goal the colonization of mars. Fourth place. The multifaceted Online Community love sharing including lodging that ranges from tree house to stylish apartments the american peer to peer running platform has tallied up a net worth of twenty five point four billion euros to shabby. Third place shalmi the Chinese ElectronicsCompany Sells smart phones for low prices and owns much of its success to its charismatic c. E. O. The company is worth thirty seven point six billion euro and the headquarters. Second place. The online Ride Sharing Service is setting out to expand internationally but whoever wants to buy it will have to hand over forty point nine billion euro any takers. Coming in at number one is the american friends protection provider this Ride Sharing Service is worth about fifty five point six billion euros and it offers reliable transport to people from all walks of life. That was the ship ranking and now telephone scammers fake microsoft employees are targeting p. C. Users worldwide claiming computers are in danger they offer Maintenance Software as a solution their goal to acquire valuable data from users and their money. Tenure gardening usually cool. And i explained to her in english that he works for microsoft he warned her that it just that moment her computer was being hacked and all her daughter was in danger to stop the hackers he said she should give him access to her p. C. Again to be sure that he really works for microsoft i looked at the number where did this call come from there was nothing suspicious about it when i said and when he said he could provide me with the proof on the computer i was convinced that the call was authentic. She then downloaded remote maintenance so the caller could log into the computer from a file located various pop up warnings and fake viruses were before her eyes but the positive impression didnt last long. And i did at that moment the hacker has full access to the system he can move the mouse see what they have on their monitors and type in commands that makes it impossible for the victim to know if the perpetrator is making harmful commands installing trojans or something similar they believe that computers are merely being maintained because i did. Finally tell you was asked to pay for the saving of her daughter via credit card. She was skeptical she disconnected the. But it was too late her monitor was black and nothing worked anymore by that point the hacker could have stolen all of her most important data. He had the chance to see her Online Banking information and read her emails he could even steal all of her saved passwords and take over her Digital Identity he did to use the name. Microsoft is well aware of the problem according to the u. S. Company about ten thousand scans like these are reported every month around two hundred fifty criminal groups such as these are active worldwide the majority are in call centers in India Government organizations are also working against these phone scammers better rail if Successful Police say the best method is selfprotection. The first tip is simple double check if the person who is calling you is who they say they are that means to really check went out and the call and if youve already been affected disconnect from the internet. And im part of the internet a couple. Otherwise the worst could happen your personal data falls into criminal hands. Should be careful what you do. And no short and sweet the ship snapshot. Of. Whats going on here a fish swimming between shelves. And invasion of gigantic spiders. And a skeleton dancing around grendel costumes. Dont worry these arent hallucinations theyre animated clips by burning man the parts the artist from the philippines works in los angeles as a visual effects specialist. In his free time he lets his imagination run wild on instagram there he transforms into super mario. Or sends a whale floating through the air. Theres more than one hundred thousand followers on instagram are regularly decile. He sometimes works three days straight on his three day cartoons. No worries for energy he can have a donut. That was the ships snapshot. As always we leave ship through the access our internet find of the week this time cellphone elves. What does daily life inside of smartphones look like. What really happens when the alarm clock goes off. The clip we are watching you provides a unique answer living chips and bytes inside of smart phones operate them and the little helpers are kept on their toes. The comedic short film was created by up and coming german filmmaker ploughing on hoffmans the nineteen year old has already cleaned up awards with a short now we finally know whos responsible for our texting mistakes. And next time on shift. In nature its usually only the birds that tweet thanks to belgian researchers trees are tweeting out today theyre connected to sensors with the goal of better understanding Climate Change tweeting for science next week on shift. People all about the moments that. Its all about the stories in so. Its all about George Chance to discover the world from different perspectives. Join us in misfired by distinctive instagram arrives at g. W. Stories on topics each week on instagram. Beat the germans new and surprising aspects of life and culture in germany a. Us american keep news that takes a look at germany this increasing the traditions of everyday lives and language in this time of the highlands. So i can do to. Look disinterested d. W. Dot com the german. Champ stories followed across. Sherry commons and content welcome to. The odd. Are we alone its a fundamental question of humanity trying to figure out whether or not. Life existed on mars pretty clear water was there and quite abundance while that would be interesting so on mars the atmosphere is a hundredth of what we have here on earth its very very cold and at the past its like antarctica you could imagine bringing some supplies and you know you do and build a little selfcontained pressured vehicle or vessel which would be on the surface there are things like oxygen that you can harvest from the atmosphere to help make living possible. If you want to think of humanity if we really want to survive for ever were going to have through off the earth eventual a and i know that seems a little crazy but you gotta start somewhere. The union. Union. Union. And. The. Union. To. This is deja vu news live from berlin the cattle on parliament votes in a new government today and could the lack of fugitive president separatist leader Carlos Bustamante faces arrest if he turns up for the vote setting up a standoff that could reignite the separatist independence crisis well go live to barcelona also coming up. The countdown has started for president trumps first state of the Union Address but will fall out from the shock resignation of the f. B. I. s deputy