What’s behind Europe’s efforts to ditch US software in favor of sovereign tech Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is far less vocal about his worldviews than Palantir’s Alex Karp. And yet, France is taking steps to reduce its reliance on Windows, while its domestic intelligence agency recently renewed its contract with the increasingly controversial data analytics company. This paradox is...

Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Feb. 6 #705Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles.Today's NYT Strands puzzle has a few real puzzlers. Some of the answers are difficult to unscramble,...

Ouster’s new color lidar is coming to replace cameras The tech industry has spent the last decade asking whether self-driving cars need lidar sensors, cameras, or all of the above. Lidar company Ouster says it has a new answer: put them both in the same sensor. On Monday, the San Francisco-based company announced a new lineup of lidar sensors it calls “Rev8,” all of which offer so-called...

Central Haitian town descends into fire and bloodshed from gang warfare A police officer stands guard in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, March 3, 2026. Odelyn Joseph/AP hide...

Patterns on mammoth tusks help to retell history of writingFirst writing may be 40,000 years earlier than thoughtGeorgina RannardScience reporterUniversity of Tübingen / Hildegard JensenA 40,000-year-old mammoth figurine with engraved rows of crosses and dotsThe history of writing down thoughts and feelings could be tens of thousands of years older than previously believed, surprising...