An AI-powered longevity app launched in July to help users answer one of life’s biggest mysteries: When will I die? Death Clock is trained on the data of over 53 mn people taken from 1.2k life expectancy studies, and uses your diet, exercise level, sleep habits, mental health, and involvement in your community to predict the length of your lifespan. Down to the date.

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Can the data be trusted? The AI operates based on valid statistics, and its tailored approach makes it a “pretty significant” upgrade from static mortality rate tables, Death Clock developer Brent Franson told Bloomberg. For example, the US mortality rate table predicts that an 85-year-old man has an average of 5.6 years to live with a 10% probability of dying within a year.

But life expectancy is not only based on financial and economic calculations — it also informs them. Financial standing and planning are major factors in determining life expectancy, but financial planner Ryan Zabrowski says that people’s financial behavior is affected by how long they expect to live. “A huge concern for [elderly people] is outliving their money,” said Zabrowski, which prompts them to take their age into account when deciding how much to save and how fast to withdraw assets. But averages taken from broad-brush mortality tables can be off by a wide margin, warns Franson. Enter Death Clock.

Since its launch in July, the app has been downloaded by 125k users, reports Bloomberg, citing market data firm Sensor Tower. After being handed a “fond farewell” card stamped with your death day from the Grim Reaper himself, Death Clock offers lifestyle plans and habit trackers with the aim of helping its users postpone their death date — for USD 40 a year. This means that the app ironically ranks quite high in the Health and Fitness category.

Illegal streaming websites that were allegedly part of the largest piracy network in the world have been taken down across 10 countries, according to The Independent, with 100 homes being raided by the authorities in what is being called Operation Takendown. The websites in question were taking part in copyright infringements by allowing users to illegally download or stream movies, TV shows, music, and video games.

The network had 22 mn users across Europe, granting them a hefty monthly revenue of EUR 250 mn per month. The operation managed to take down around 100 domains, seize EUR 1.65 mn in cryptocurrency, 29 computer servers, hundreds of IPTV devices, and arrest 11 offenders, with 102 suspects still under investigation.

This operation was the action following a two-year-long investigation with the help of the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol), which resulted in finding evidence of additional charges, including money laundering and cyber crimes. “The scale of these multi-jurisdictional law enforcement actions highlights the considerable challenge our industry faces when dealing with such sophisticated international pirate networks,” said Mark Mulready, co-president of AAPA.

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