Get. One dislike of every weekend here on w. Every journey begins with the first step and every language with the first word the word in the. Eco is in germany to learn german and why not learn something simple online on your mobile and free stuff from d w z e learning course you can speak german for me to see. The full. Shift living in the digital age. Coming up groundbreaking startups telephone scam. And funny cartoons. But first girl. Power in the gaming scene women are rarely present in gaming as either players or developers in many games their depictions are highly sexualized but women in the industry are working to change that. The role of women in Computer Games according to prevalent stereotypes in the male dominated scene they just walk around in a revealing clothing bleep and fight their way to victory the stereotypes were on display at the dream House Convention in like. The computer game festival hosts germanys largest black men all local area network. Women make up only a small chunk of the seventeen hundred players and theyre critical of the reductive depictions in games. Id say sex sells big breasts big. Its just thats not an accurate depiction of women i cant identify with it at all 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. Numbered today estimates from the scene indicate that women comprise half of all gamers but they have little influence and to scarcely represented even a dream pack only means you could out of the east towards 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 this customers which is one reason the secure starting to shift focus for instance to writers lara croft has changed during her twenty year long korea from a mia busty warrior. To a fully realized adventurous woman more and more games are creating multifaceted characters like our boy they hear it from horizon zero dawn. Masters from the three d. Adventure game life is strange. That its these advances are a consequence of game against issues have been hotly debated under this hashtag for years one provocative question how six system is the gaming industry and must 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 should in order to reach a female audience. Here conceptualizing games is a combination of design and technology the students learn 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 are 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 heres 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 and consents to ties their colleagues. Not to believe Game Development company one third of their approximately two hundred and so she was a women. Created the game journey which features a strong heroine these relaxing casual games are often played on phones and a quite popular among women. Bringing in more groups of people who can speak to different experiences that 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 indie space where a lot of creators are empowered to tell very personal very specific stories using the medium of kids. Hopefully its only a matter of time before the diversity of latin increases to. Shift. Now the shifts ranking twenty seventeens 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. Must get his partner 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 houses to stylish apartments the american peer to peer mining platform has tallied up a net worth of twenty five point four billion euros too 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 euros and the headquarters have a cool slide to boot. Second place d. D. Choose the online Ride Sharing Services setting out to expand internationally but whoever wants to buy it will have to hand over forty point nine billion euros in the tankers. Coming in at number one is the American Transportation 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. Tonya got a ring usually cool. And i explained to her in english that he worked for microsoft he warned her that it just that moment her computer was being hacked and all her daughter was in danger to stop that because 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 im sorry 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 call could log into the computer from a file located various pop up warnings and fake viruses were moved 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 their computers are merely being maintained because i did. Finally tell you was asked to pay for the saving of her data via credit card she was skeptical she disconnected the internet but it was too late the 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 duties. Microsoft is well aware of the problem according to the us company about ten thousand scams like these are reported every month around two hundred fifty criminal groups such as these are active worldwide the majority are in Court Centers in India Government organizations are also working against these phone scammers but a really 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 when in doubt end 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 if your personal data falls into criminal hands. Just be careful what you dont. Know short and sweet this should snapshot of. Whats going on here fish swimming. Between shelves. And invasion of gigantic spiders. And a skeleton dancing around gentle costumes. Dont worry these arent hallucinations theyre animated clips by burning man the pas 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. Four cents a whale floating through the air. Is more than one hundred thousand followers on instagram are regularly desperate. He sometimes works three days straight on his three d. Cartoons. No worries for energy he can have a donut. That is the shift snapshot. As always we leap ship through the excess 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 Florian Hoffman 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 tuesday theyre connected to sensors with the goal of better understanding Climate Change tweeting for science next week on shift. She doesnt know if her daughters a night of dead. Birds one of many chechen mothers whove lost their children tonight yes. Why do so many Young Chechens join the islamist militia even parents caught between hope and fear not knowing if theyll ever see their sons or daughters again. Next on d. W. Lucy cordova. Expresses emotions in light. The check artist is a shining star among european. We met up with talk about her philosophy of life. Sixty minutes. The scars. The pain. The suffering. They have survived but do they also have a future. I really understand people who will say they dont want to stay here. But i also admire people who want to stay here and who decided to create something. Like what needs to happen if tolerance and reconciliation are to stand a chance darkness cities after starting march tenth w. Hello and welcome to focus on europe im michel henery good to have you with us one of the Biggest Challenges europe has faced in recent years is the refugee crisis since twenty fifteen more than a million refugees have settled here in germany the debate over how to integrate the new arrivals is one of the case sticking points in forming a new German Government more than four