According to prevalent stereotypes in the male dominated scenes they just walk around in revealing clothing and leap and fight their way to victory these stereotypes are on display at Computer Games festivals like the dream act convention in leipsic earlier this year it hosted germanys largest blend or local area network party. Women made up only a small chunk of the one thousand seven hundred players and they were 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 at all and that puts an end. Good. Today estimates from the scene indicate that women comprise half of all gamers but they have little influence and are scarcely represented even a dream had. Only men do get out of the east tournament for around one hundred eighty thousand euros in prize money. The u. S. Market Research Company super data says the gaming industry had worldwide turnover of seventy three billion euros in two thousand and sixteen. But the industry is interested in female gamers as customers which is one reason the sector is starting to shift focus for instance two raters lara croft has changed during her twenty year career from a mere busty warrior to a fully realized adventurous woman more and more games are creating multifaceted characters like the hero from horizon zero dawn. Max storm x. From the three d. Adventure game life is strange. Oh. Perhaps these advances are a consequence of gamer gate issues have been hotly debated under this hash tag for years one provocative question how sexist is the gaming industry and to change one goal of the Game Design Department at the college of technology and economics in berlin is to get more women into the industry. 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. Students are trained each year and half of them are women. 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. At the Game Development company one third of their approximately two hundred thirty workers are women Rebecca Hardwick created the game journey which features a strong heroine. These relaxing casual games are often played on phones and are quite popular among women. Bringing in more people who can speak to different experiences you can speak to the experiences of people of color. You get more diversity of stories i think its already happening. In particularly in the in the space where a lot of creators are empowered to tell very personal very specific stories using the medium of kids. Its just a matter of time before the diversity. Shifts. And now the ship ranking twenty seven teams most valuable digital startups. Fifth place space x. The American Aerospace manufacturer and Space TransportCompany Launched with a net worth of seventeen point two billion euros according to recent information. Musk and 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 running platform. Net worth of twenty five point four billion euros not too shabby. Third place shall mean 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 of course like 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 any takers. 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. And then 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 that because he said she should give him access to her p. C. 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 cool could log into the computer from a file he located various pop up warnings and fake viruses were moved the for. Her eyes but the positive impression didnt last long. And i did at that moment the hacker has full access to the system you 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 to give out. Finally tang i was asked to pay for the saving of her daughter via credit card she was skeptical she disconnected the internet but it was too late. She was black and nothing worked anymore by that point the hacker could have stolen all of her most important data on you. You only 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 core centers in India Government organizations are also working against these phone scammers better wally 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. Shift says be careful what you do. And know 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 rebel costumes. Dont worry these arent elucidations theyre animated clips by vernon monopods 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 since a whale floating into the air. Has more than one hundred thirty thousand followers on instagram are regularly dazzled. And he sometimes works three days straight on his three d. Cartoons but no worries for energy he can have a donut. To shift snapshot. As always we leap ship through the excerpt our internet find of the week this time cellphone elves. What does daily life inside 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. 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