The BAAP of all deals -DEALGURU

You can now shop online like never before with exciting offers and deals that you have long waited for. So why wait? The much awaited deal site at AskmeBAzaaar not only offers you rock bottom prices but also gives you an amazing shopping experience which is more reliable and full of choices with categories like fashion, beauty, electronics, home appliances and much much more.

What is more is that you get a variety of brand stores online at dealguru where you can view complete details of each product and the details of the vendor shipping the product along with contact details, before making a purchase.

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AskmeBazaar Generates Content/Image, DealGuru Generates Orders

Product samples are requested from sellers by AskmeBazaar, reviewed and identified for suitable pricing which on confirmation from the seller, the deal then strikes off and made live on DealGuru. This deal turns out to be of great advantage to the consumers, who are keen on purchasing products which come with good discounts, available to be viewed online and purchased. On confirmation of the orders, the same is delivered to the desired location without much strain and effort in the shopping process.

AskmeBazaar is the one who generates the content as well as the images of the products which are made available at the site for the benefit of the viewers. Once the order is placed and the payment process completed, DealGuru then generates the orders placed and ensures that the delivery of the products are done to the buyers as per their estimated schedule. They then send the confirmation of the delivery details to the buyer keeping them updated on the process of the order.

AskmeBazaar Undertakes Process Return Request

On successful delivery of the said order, the amount is then transferred to the seller after making the deductions and fulfilment of their commitment and charges as agreed upon by them. AskmeBazaar also undertakes to process return request, when the need arises.With presently over one thousand live deals together with more than nine hundred sellers, consumers are at an advantage of variety of choices to choose from which ranges from Apparels, fashion like jewellery, bags, footwear, accessories, in beauty products related to cosmetic and perfumes.

Home appliance like storages, utensils, etc. in electronics – accessories, storage devices, etc. and much more are all available at the site. Consumers also have the option of navigation and refining their search on the desired products through their search option which enables the viewer to locate their desired product if they are available at the site.

AskME app Review-The Baap of all Apps

AskMe.com is the next generation mobile app which serves as a one-stop solution destination that offers it’s users local search option, deals, online classifieds, buy now and voice features.

AskMe.com provides a simple solution to the user by eliminating the need to switch between different platforms like JustDial, OLX, Snapdeal, Groupon and more. All these options are available on one place i.e. AskMe.com and it does not end here it can turn out to be a boon for users particularly on mobile as they don’t need to switch
back and forth.

Once you Download AskMe App, You can start you local search like never before within seconds even standing by roadside. It has become even easier to use this service from a mobile phone than from a desktop PC.

You can also review items on the the AskMe.com platform before making a final decision and that is something which completes your search from start to end on the AskMe.com

How to use this App? Go to the home screen of AskMe.com app,just type in what you are searching for and there you go.

The ease and convenience of the AskMe.com app gives you the power to search “on the go” in your local area. It does not matter what you may be looking for, you can find it all on AskMe.com. So if you are on a road trip or away from your desktop, don’t just wait.

The AskMe.com mobile app is available for smartphone users as AskMe.com for Android and iOS

First time a woman has won mathematics’ top prize

The Fields Medal, officially known as the International Medal for Outstanding Discoveries in Mathematics, is given out every four years to up to four mathematicians under the age of 40.

Iranian-born Maryam Mirzakhani is the first female winner out of all the 52 previous recipients of the prize. She’s a professor at Stanford University in California, US, and an expert on the behaviour of dynamical systems.

As Dana Mackenzie from New Scientist explains, she “studies the geometry of moduli space, a complex geometric and algebraic entity that might be described as a universe in which every point is itself a universe.”

The other winners this year are Artur Avila, a researcher in a dynamical systems from the National Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics in Brazil and the National Centre for Scientific Research in France; Manjul Bhargava from Princeton University in the US, who was recognised for new methods in the geometry of numbers; and Martin Hairer of the University of Warwick in England, who studies the effect of random noise on partial differential equations, which includes the effect of turbulence on ocean currents or the flow of air around airplane wings.

It’s a fantastic achievement for all the winners, but given that 70 percent of the PhDs in mathematics still go to men, this is also good news for the field.

“This is a great honour. I will be happy if it encourages young female scientists and mathematicians,” Mirzakhani said in a Stanford University press release. “I am sure there will be many more women winning this kind of award in coming years.”

Ingrid Daubechies, a professor of mathematics at Duke University in North Carolina, US, and president of the International Mathematical Union, which awards the Medal, told Kenneth Chang from the New York Times over email:

“All researchers in mathematics will tell you that there is no difference between the math done by a woman or a man, and of course the decision of the Fields Medal committee is based only on the results of each candidate … That said, I bet the vast majority of the mathematicians in the world will be happy that it will no longer be possible to say that ‘the Fields Medal has always been awarded only to men.’”

New smartphone prototype can be charged by sound

A team of scientists from the Queen Mary University of London has teamed up with Nokia to create a sound-powered smartphone. About the size of a Nokia Lumia 925 phone, the device is filled with energy-harveting ‘nanogenerators’ that can react to sound vibrations and create electricity.

The technology is based on a concept proposed by Korean scientists four years agocalled the piezoelectric effect, which describes how nanowires made from zinc oxide produce an electrical current when they’re subjected to some kind of mechanical stress, such as being squashed, stretched or bent. The Korean researchers discovered that these tiny nanowires were so sensitive, they’d bend in response to the pressure of sound waves. 

With this in mind, the UK team started off by spraying a coating of liquid zinc oxide onto a plastic sheet, says Ben Coxworth at Gizmag, which they placed into a mixture of chemicals and heated to 90ºC (194ºF). This made the liquid zinc oxide grow into tiny nanorods that spread all over the sheet.

"In order to harvest the voltage generated, the nanorod sheet was sandwiched between two electrical contact sheets,” Coxworth adds. "Whereas these contacts would typically be made from gold, the researchers developed a cost-cutting technique that allowed them to use ordinary aluminium foil instead."

The team found that when they installed this device in their smartphone prototype, and exposed it to sounds like traffic, human voices, and music, it was able to generate five volts, which is enough to charge a mobile phone.

"Being able to keep mobile devices working for longer, or do away with batteries completely by tapping into the stray energy that is all around us is an exciting concept,” said one of the team, engineer Joe Briscoe, in a press release. "We hope that we have brought this technology closer to viability."

World’s fastest camera shoots 4.4 trillion frames per second

This new camera is around 1,000 times faster than any other camera in the world, and is powered by a brand new technique for capturing images, known as Sequentially Timed All-optical Mapping Photography, or STAMP.

The former fastest cameras in the world create images via the so-called 'pump-probe process', in which light is ‘pumped' at the object it's photographing, and then ‘probed' for absorption. But this new camera has employed the STAMP technique, which works by shooting ultra-fast, single-shot bursts of light at an object to capture its image. This process is so much faster and more efficient because it can map an object over time very quickly, therefore skipping the repetitive measures that the pump-probe process relies on to create its images.

"The STAMP has been proposed to improve the study of chemical reactions and heat conduction, which travels around six times slower than the speed of light,” says Chris Higgins at Wired UK. "The teams, split between Keio University and the University of Tokyo, have been working on a STAMP camera for the past three years, and hope to continue to do so now that their findings have been made public.”

The researchers describe their technology in the journal Nature Photonics, and are now working on scaling it down to prepare it for the commercial market. They hope to see it used in several medical applications, and to study fast dynamics in photochemistry, phononics, and plasma physics.

Want to Learn SQL? Here is a Great Tutorial!

Mode Analytics, a recently launched site for collaborative data science in the cloud, has published an excellent tutorial for learning SQL.

The tutorial is named SQL School .

This is one of the best SQL tutorials I have seen. Plus, it has the huge added advantage of not requiring you to setup your own database first (the data is already available). Setting up your own database can be a bit overwhelming when you are first learning. So, if you are looking to learn SQL, now is a great time to start.

Are the Earth's magnetic poles about to flip?

Over the past six months, the Earth’s magnetic field has been weakening 10 times faster than in previous years, reports the European Space Agency (ESA). The recent changes may indicate that the Earth's magnetic poles are about to flip.

The magnetic field, which has been described as a huge bubble that protects the Earth from incoming cosmic radiation and solar winds, is always changing and ESA’s Swarm mission has been tracking these fluctuations since November 2013. 

The magnetic poles flip every few hundred thousand years and changes in the strength of the magnetic field are part of the cycle, but what is striking is the rate at which it is weakening. “Researchers estimated the field was weakening about 5 percent per century, but new data revealed the field is actually weakening at 5 percent per decade, or 10 times faster than thought,” explains Kelly Dickerson at LiveScience.

Scientists expect the next flip in about 2,000 years, but at this rate it may happen sooner. What does it mean for humans? Compasses could point south instead of north for the first time in more than a hundred thousand years, and grids and communication may be affected.

According to LiveScience, the biggest weak spots in the magnetic field have been found over the Western Hemisphere, but it has strengthened over the southern Indian Ocean since January 2014. The latest measurements, as ESA states in a news release, suggest the movement of the magnetic North towards Siberia.

Over the next few months, researchers will continue to analyse Swarm’s data to see how the mantle, crust, oceans, ionosphere and magnetosphere may be contributing to these change.