Tired of waiting for Apple to open up Siri to more developers? So were a group of college students, who’ve come up with a clever workaround. Their hack is called “Googolplex,” and it allows users to ...

The Siri hack we heard hype about last month was released today. GoogolPlex allows your iPhone to access third-party apps like Spotify, Hue, and Nest to do things that Siri can’t (or won’t). As ...

We already know Apple is working on improving Siri, but gosh dangit, the folks in Cupertino just aren't moving as fast as some would like. That's why a quartet of freshmen at the University of ...

According to the student team, GoogolPlex was named for the "near-infinite number of possibilities Siri could reach with our hack." But vanity aside, the title is also a strategic move: When a user ...

Siri seems to get new powers all the time, but it's still not useful unless you're really hooked into Apple's apps. If you want to add some new commands and don't mind a slow response time, GoogolPlex ...

You might know that a googol—the digit 1 followed by 100 zeroes—is a very large number indeed. You might even know that a googolplex—a 1 followed by a googol of zeros—is an even bigger number. But ...

Four college freshmen hacked Apple's Siri virtual assistant to allow for third-party app commands. The project, dubbed GoogolPlex, took third place in February's PennApps university hackathon, and is ...

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