Hackers make Siri vastly more useful by modifying it to control Nest, Spotify

[Guest Brad Reed]

Siri is getting a lot of competition from Google Now and Microsoft's Cortana these days, but some young hackers have just made Siri much more useful, even if they did so without Apple's permission. Engadget draws our attention to GoogolPlex, a new hack for Siri developed by a quartet of freshmen at the University of Pennsylvania that lets you use Apple's voice-enabled personal assistant to adjust the temperature on your Nest thermostat or to shuffle through your Spotify playlist.

 

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