If you need a stark reminder of your mortality as Day of the Dead approaches, the new Deadline app for iOS will do the trick. The $0.99 app combines the new HealthKit SDK from iOS 8 with a bit of personal information in order to estimate how much time you have left in life. This is basically the quantified self version of The Death Clock. Of course, Deadline can’t promise accuracy, but developer Alaric Cole, who also created the Fitly app for tracking your steps, told me_he used algorithms similar to the ones insurance companies use to generate the estimate....

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