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Nokia announces three Android smartphones, the Nokia X, Nokia X+ and the Nokia XL, during its Mobile World Congress press conference.

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Mike Elgan

Guest: Devindra Hardawar

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Netflix to pay Comcast, Samsung Gear 2, Project Tango, router malware, and more.

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Guests: John C. Dvorak, Mark Milian, and Nathan Olivarez-Giles

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WhatsApp goes down for a few hours, the Netflix and Comcast deal, uploading to YouTube from a phone, and your calls.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guest: Chris Marquardt

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The $19B WhatsApp success story, iOS 7 vulnerability, setting up DNS on your computer, and your calls.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Scott Wilkinson, Johnny Jet, and Dick DeBartolo

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Fitbit recalls Force after rashes appear, you can finally block people on Linkedin, Amazon adds LoveFilm to Prime, Facebook sees dead people, and Harvard's supercomputer is hacked to mine Dogecoins.

Host: Jason Howell

Guest: Levi Sumagaysay

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Anti-trust issues with the Comcast/Time-Warner merger, privacy with cellphone location data, how not to be a Glasshole, and more.

Host: Evan Brown

Guests: Spencer Weber Waller, Ryan Radia, and Lisa Borodkin

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Microsoft's answer to Siri is coming to Windows Phone, Amazon's TV box could ship in March, a new Google phone prototype maps the inside of your house, and more.

Hosts: Mike Elgan and Jason Howell

Guests: Elise Hu, Tom Warren, Sarah Silbert, and Alex Kantrowitz

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We discuss getting rid of space junk with a tractor beam, viewer feedback straight from Google Plus, and speed up your DNS.

The "Domain Name System" is how computers find resources on the Internet. Anytime a computer tries to navigate to a web server or connect to a service (i.e. Google), the computer first needs to request a "DNS Resolution" from a DNS server. The DNS server turns an address like "Google.com" into its IP address equivilant. If your DNS server is slow to respond, it will slow your entire Internet communication session.

Benchmarking your DNS

Try using Steve Gibson's "DNS Benchmark" - It will allow you to test the reliability and responsiveness of DNS servers in your area. You can find it. here.

Choosing a 3rd Party DNS

My personal favorite 3rd Party DNS servers are Google DNS: (8.8.4.4) and OpenDNS: (208.67.222.222) To configure Windows 7:

To configure Mac OSX:

To Configure your Router:

Editing your Hosts File

For Windows 7:

For OSX:

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Scott and Brian McCarty of Coral Sea Studios discuss sound for movies.

Host: Scott Wilkinson

Guest: Brian McCarty

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A smartphone that tracks the 3D world around you, digging through the problems with Bitcoins at Mt Gox, the back-stories behind the Whatsapp deal, and the self-driving cars of the future.

Host: Sarah Lane

Guest: Jill Duffy

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