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Vudu’s new Family Play mode automatically skips sex, violence, profanity, and drug use in movies

Vudu is trying to establish itself as the most family-friendly video streaming service with several new features aimed at parents. The most interesting of them is called Family Play, and when activated, it lets you “skip past or mute strong scenes of sexuality, violence, substance abuse, and language.” Customers have the option of customizing the

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Self-driving car startup Voyage, the Udacity spinoff operating taxi fleets in two retirement communities, raises $31M Series B led by Franklin Templeton (Alan Ohnsman/Forbes)

Alan Ohnsman / Forbes: Self-driving car startup Voyage, the Udacity spinoff operating taxi fleets in two retirement communities, raises $31M Series B led by Franklin Templeton  —  Voyage, a Silicon Valley self-driving vehicle startup focused on using the technology to provide transportation at retirement communities … Self-driving car startup Voyage, the Udacity spinoff operating taxi

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Incredible Health, a US-based job matching platform for nurse vacancies, raises $15M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: Incredible Health, a US-based job matching platform for nurse vacancies, raises $15M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz  —  Andreessen Horowitz has led a $15 million Series A in US-based job matching platform for nursing vacancies, Incredible Health.  Other investors in the funding round include NFX … Incredible Health, a US-based

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Apple says it is tweaking changes announced at WWDC to App Store policies around Sign in with Apple and the rules around children's app categories (Matthew Panzarino/TechCrunch)

{$inline_image} Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: Apple says it is tweaking changes announced at WWDC to App Store policies around Sign in with Apple and the rules around children’s app categories  —  Originally announced in June, changes to Apple’s App Store policies on its Sign in with Apple service and the rules around children’s app categories

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