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A New Test Predicts When You’ll Die (Give or Take a Few Years)

And insurance companies are already interested.
Soothsaying was once a fringe pursuit — the purview of psychics, subway cranks, and speed-addicted sci-fi novelists. Today, it’s big business. Abetted by new technology, thousands of salaried STEM types are now engaged in figuring out the future.

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