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 ...

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 ...

A crew of four Penn students went from PennApps to TechCrunch to Nest in just a few months. Ben Hsu, Ajay Patel, Alex Sands and Gagan Gupta — all freshmen at the time — built a Siri hack at PennApps ...

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 ...

When Apple first introduced Siri three years ago, she amazed the world with her warm voice and her human-like voice response. But the years since her debut have been quietly underwhelming, in large ...

Every iPhone owner wishes Siri could be more useful. Fortunately, a group of college kids found a way to make that happen. University of Pennsylvania freshmen Ben Hsu, Ajay Patel, Alex Sands, and ...

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 ...