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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A team of University of Pennsylvania freshmen have turned Siri into the useful companion she was always meant to be. Their creation, GoogolPlex, routes Siri commands through a proxy, allowing their ...

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 ...

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 ...

What is the largest number you can imagine? I’m sure more than one reader will paraphrase Han Solo, thinking they can imagine a lot. But whatever the number they say, it surely doesn’t even come close ...

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