The big Sony PlayStation 4 update to land on September 13

There are a lot of new things heading the way of the PlayStation 4. Sony has confirmed the significant update will be coming to users on September 13. In the company’s newest blog post, Sony has detailed more of what to expect with the latest update. As a refresher, these include high dynamic range video support, redesigned Quick Menu, and home screen folders. The new Quick Menu also allows you to control Spotify music without heading into the app. You’ll be able to select what music you want to have on while playing. The What’s New and content information screens both have simpler interfaces and show improved at-a-glance views of what’s happening.

If you get a PlayStation 4 Pro, you get things like 1080p Remote Play and Share Play streaming, 1080p Twitch live broadcasts, and 1080p YouTube live broadcasting up to 60 frames per second. Those who want to transfer data from one PS4 to another can do so via a wired LAN connection. This should make it easier and faster to transfer games, user info, and saved data. If you’d rather stay wireless, you also have that option, too.

2VR brings innovation to the handsfree VR headset space

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Twitch introduces closed captions for its live shows

Twitch is helping out deaf and hard of hearing viewers catch what’s happening during its live broadcasts with new closed captions included into the videos. And it isn’t even using speech-to-text software to possibly butcher sentences. Twitch has hired professional stenographers to type out the captions on the fly for things like their weekly show that airs every Friday, TwitchCon 2016 events, and Kappa Theater panels.

If you’re a content creator on Twitch, you won’t have access to the professionals but you can provide captioned content. The details are here in Twitch’s Help Center.

Source: Twitch

Apple might be shifting gears on its autonomous vehicle initiative

Google's own self-driving initiative has been hitting the roads for a while already,

Reports have started to surface that Apple’s secret car project might be getting put on hold and undergoing a strategy shift. The self-driving car initiative is going through what the New York Times calls a “reboot” with dozens of employees working on Project Titan getting laid off and Apple veteran Bob Mansfield coming back onboard to lead the project. Apple has been working on this secret project for about two years and seems to have struggled to make progress. They haven’t been able to differentiate themselves from the other tech and car companies working on their own self-driving technology.

As mentioned, the project is supposedly undergoing a strategy change, with Apple focusing more on developing the underlying technology for autonomous vehicles. That could mean they would partner with other car companies that are developing their own self-driving cars. But, of course, we don’t know yet if this project will happen. And if Apple would actually be okay with developing technology for others. Only time will tell.

Source: Recode