Bytes: Week in Review Google cookies, Waymo vandalism and Kamala Harris memes
On the show today: The ascent of Vice President Kamala Harris to the top of the Democratic Party ticket has stirred the KHive. We’ll look at what the Harris memes mean, in case you just fell out of a coconut tree. Plus, why Waymo is suing alleged vandals of its vehicles in San Francisco. We ask, why now? But first, cookies are here to stay \u2014 for a while, anyway. Google is backtracking on its plan, announced in 2020, to do away with the files that advertisers use to track us online. Marketplace\u2019s Lily Jamali spoke with Paresh Dave, senior writer at Wired magazine, about why.