Reads: Algorithms and Bias, Record Heat & More

A wrap on some of the interesting reads from across the web...

1. Dying Alone in Japan: The Industry Devoted to What's Left Behind - Bloomberg
2. A Trillion Dollars is Buying Tech Investors a Lot of Headaches - Bloomberg
3. Axes of Evil - The Atavist
4. How Record Heat Wreaked Havoc on Four Continents - The New York Times
5. Why Some Guys Like Jerking Off Together - Buzzfeed (NSFW)
6. The Long, Noble and Stinky Quest to Make Human Shit Useful - Wired UK
7. Visualizing the Hidden 'Logic' of Cities - Citylab
8. Teens Are Debating the News on Instagram - The Atlantic
9. Why Don't More Men Take Their Wives' Last Names? - The Atlantic
10. What Should Medicine Do When it Can't Save You? - The New Yorker
11. Want Less-Biased Decisions? Use Algorithms. - HBR
12. 'The discourse is unhinged': How the Media Gets AI Alarmingly Wrong - The Guardian
13. Accidents at Amazon - The Guardian
14. The Dark Core of Personality - Scientific American
15. Xinjiang: A Surveillance State Unlike Any the World Has Ever Seen - Spiegel