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 ...

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 ...

Voice control is a super convenient way to control stuff with your phone, at least when your AI isn’t just shouting error messages at other computers. Googolplex ...

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 is great in theory, not so great in practice. The voice-control system on your iPhone can only do so much; for instance, why does it have such a problem launching third-party apps? Googolplex is ...

Apple’s Siri is handy for checking weather and making appointments with voice commands, but what if she were smart enough to turn the lights on or unlock your car? That’s what the folks behind ...

Does your magic mobile device feel somehow lacking of late? Well, have we got a lunch-break upgrade project for you. A group of students at the University of Pennsylvania have developed GoogolPlex — ...

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 ...