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Back-up host Sarah Silverman in an air-tight box for the 2022 Spirit AwardsScreenshot: IFC If the Spirit Awards went by Friends naming conventions, then this show might’ve gone down in history as “The One That Killed Sarah Silverman.” Mullaly and Offerman opened the show with a backstage sketch about meeting “back-up host” Sarah Silverman. A …

San Francisco-based voice entertainment company Volley announced this week it has acquired Voxion, a voice technology startup that high school graduates from Stonington founded in 2018. In the earlier days of Voxion, founders Matthew Gillen, Ryan Fornara and Nathaniel Rowe launched Hotel Helper, software used on Google Home speakers to act as a technological concierge, …

For Bonnie Krisak, getting through each day was a struggle. “Mentally it wears a lot on you, more than you think about,” said Krisak. “Physically, just the pain is very, very uncomfortable.” She’s a teacher, but her health kept interrupting her lesson plans. “I couldn’t leave my classroom very often to use the bathroom and …