Alert over booby-trapped security software

Piriform told users a booby-trapped version of its CCleaner software had been made available in August and September. Millions of people use the CCleaner program to remove unwanted junk from Android phones and Windows PCs. Piriform's owner, Avast, said it had managed to remove the compromised version before any harm had been done. It appears that it was only the Windows version of CCleaner that was compromised.

Fluctuating Weight May Affect Your Blood Pressure; Try These Foods to Keep Healthy

Obesity is a cause of quite some health problems that you shouldn't ignore; one of them being blood pressure. According to the research presented at the American Heart Association (AHA) Council on Hypertension, AHA Council on Kidney in Cardiovascular Disease, American Society of Hypertension Joint Scientific Sessions 2017 in San Francisco, your fluctuating weight can influence blood pressure. The study looked at the impact of five health behaviours on blood pressure levels over a 25 year period.

Clothes that grow with your child win Dyson prize

The prototype garments fit children aged between six months and three years, and were created by engineering graduate Ryan Yasin.

Households 'need help to get warmer home'

Families in other nations receive much more help to reduce bills, the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) says. The researchers say recent UK government cuts to energy efficiency programmes are ludicrous and the opposite of whats needed. The government says it will soon announce new policies soon as part of its long-delayed Clean Growth Plan. But it would need to radically improve measures to match the support for home improvements offered in other nations. Currently its hard for anyone in the UK outside the poorest fifth of society to access public funds to help with insulation.

Fiat's 1.3 Multijet diesel to bow out by end of decade

Fiats ubiquitous 1.3-litre diesel engine will be discontinued in India with the incoming of new Bharat Stage VI (BS-VI) emission regulations in 2020, as there are no plans to upgrade the engine to comply with the new norms. With Maruti, Fiats largest customer for this engine, and Tata Motors switching to their own, in-house-developed BS-VI diesel engines, there wont be any takers for the Fiat engine. Also, the future of Fiat itself is uncertain in India and its likely that parent company, Fiat-Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) will axe the Fiat brand and concentrate its resources on making Jeep a success. Even if FCA continues to sell Fiats in India, the sales volume of under 6,000 units a year is too small to justify the huge development costs required to upgrade the Multijet from BS-IV. After we lost Maruti and Tata as a customer, we knew that would spell the end of this engine, said a company source.

Poultry waste spreading multi-drug resistant bacteria: CSE

Poultry farms are reservoirs of multi-drug resistant bacteria and play a major role in their spread, according to a recent study. Click To Go The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) study found that the misuse of antibiotics in poultry farms is leading to a proliferation of multi-drug resistant bacteria. To make matters worse, these bacteria are now spreading in the environment because of unsafe disposal of poultry litter and waste in agricultural fields - this has a potential to infect human beings.

Tablets are still in vogue in India, suggests report

The availability of truly big-screen smartphones has made working on them a lot easier and ruled out the need for a separate tablet. Yet the tablets are not going away anywhere soon. According to the latest International Data Corporations (IDC) Personal Computing Device Tracker, about 7,22,000 tablets were shipped in India in Q2 2017. This indicates a growth rate of 2.9% from the previous quarter.