How To Hack Siri And Make It A Million Times More Useful

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Googolplex creators

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Googolplex creators Ben Hsu, Ajay Patel, Alex Sands, Gagan Gupta

Every iPhone owner wishes Siri could be more useful. Fortunately, a group of college kids found a way to make that happen.

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University of Pennsylvania freshmen Ben Hsu, Ajay Patel, Alex Sands, Gagan Gupta created a program called Googolplex during the college's annual hackathon.

It is essentially a replacement for Siri that can sync with third-party apps.

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Googolplex can play music from Spotify, turn up the temperature in your house through the Nest Learning Thermostat, and even unlock the doors on your Tesla.

More commands are on the way, but the set up process for this is so simple. We tested out Googolplex's features to see how it works.

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