Reads: Grief, Smuggling Gold & More

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

1. Into the Pharaoh's Chamber: How I Fell in Love With Ancient Egypt - The Guardian
2. The Instagram Aesthetic Is Over - The Atlantic
3. The Dark Saga of Katie Bouman - The Atlantic
4. To Grieve Is to Carry Another Time - Longreads
5. Google's Constant Product Shutdowns Are Damaging its Brand - Ars Technica
6. Online Privacy Isn't Dead—If We Fight for It - Medium
7. Gold Worth Billions Smuggled Out of Africa - Reuters
8. Delete Never: The Digital Hoarders Who Collect Tumblrs, Medieval Manuscripts, and Terabytes of Text Files - Gizmodo
9. The End of Obscurity: Why You Can No Longer Get Lost in the Crowd - The New York Times
10. One Month, 500,000 Face Scans: How China Is Using A.I. to Profile a Minority - The New York Times
11. Facebook Showed Me My Data Is Everywhere And I Have Absolutely No Control Over It - Buzzfeed
12. My Search for a Boyhood Friend Led to a Dark Discovery - Wired
13. How Recommendation Algorithms Run the World - Wired
14. What It Takes to Put Your Phone Away - The New Yorker
15. Retailers Are Tracking Where You Shop -- and Where You Sleep - Bloomberg