Happy Monday and welcome to another installment of The Monitor, WIRED's culture news roundup. What did you miss over the weekend? Well, for one thing, you're getting another Spidey movie. For another, Ellen DeGeneres is getting into the streaming wars. And there's a trailer for BBC's The War of the Worlds. Let's dive in.The Stranger…

Photograph: GARMINReview: Garmin Fenix 6S ProThe wearables in Garmin’s Fenix series are the best multisport watches you can own. This year’s update, the Fenix 6 series, is even better. The Fenix 6S Pro is so detailed, and it tracks and coaches you through so many different activities, that you’d have to live out of a…

The GIF has had an impressively long run amidst the usual short-term churn of the tech industry. One of the earliest ways of displaying animations on the web—long before there was enough bandwidth to support video—it now thrives as the preferred choice for sharing simple, short clips.If the process of creating your own GIFs has…

Even founder Daniel Gross has a hard time explaining Pioneer. Over the course of one phone call, he compared it to Fortnite Battle Royale, Airbnb, Google, a sci-fi novel, a human accelerator, and an Ivy League campus.Gross launched the project he claims will change the world in August 2018. Then, he described Pioneer as a…

Say hello to the future face of high-speed rail in the Northeast Corridor. Well, minus its nose. The power car (under construction in the photo above) is part of an 11-car train set, the first of 28 new sets that Amtrak ordered from French manufacturer Alstom. Soon the whole set, dubbed Prototype 1, will be…

Project A, the Berlin-based VC, just raised a new $200 million fund (€180 million) to continue backing European startups at Seed and Series A stage. In addition, the firm —…

Earlier this summer, Microsoft introduced an extra layer of security to its Dropbox competitor, OneDrive. The security features, called OneDrive Personal Vault, allow users to protect their files with two-step…

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After raising $100 million, virtual reality content startup Jaunt has been in a precarious position for a few years now. It seems like the saga has finally come to a…

Back in 2015, Google’s ATAP team demoed a new kind of wearable tech at Google I/O that used functional fabrics and conductive yarns to allow you to interact with your…