A super-hot technology now getting intense attention in the tech space is blockchain; the first auto suppliers will begin using it in 2017. In the automotive business. As you prepare to tackle your New Year's resolutions with full force, it's time to get organized and keep your eyes on the prize. Get advice from the experts at Cosmo about sex, love, relationships, dating, how to meet men, and what guys want. ![]() The Ten Best Comedy Events in Denver: January 2. Kathy Griffin headlines the Paramount Theatre on Saturday, January 2. Courtesy of Ballantine Books. As Coloradans face a cold and unknowable 2. With fond farewells, grand homecomings and special guests headlining our clubs and theaters, January has comedy shows galore in store for every stripe of comedy nerd. Resolve to see everything this city has to offer, support local showcases and laugh your way into the new year. Like many great New Year's traditions, this show brings people together under one roof and directs their gaze toward the future. Local hosts Timmi Lasley and Mara Wiles continue a tradition dating back to 2. New York standups convened in a Lower East Side bar to debut their first joke of the new year. Taazi.com is Pakistan's 1st Legal Music Website and App, All songs are legally uploaded by the copyright holders. Support the artist community and say no to piracy. Under the stalwart guidance of original producer John F. O'Donnell, Fifty First Jokes has expanded to dozens of other cities and still draws sell- out crowds every year. Because every joke has to be written after the ball drops to herald the arrival of 2. Denver's finest and funniest, while the participating comics must rise to meet the challenge. Tickets are $1. 0 at nightout. Dana Gould. Wednesday January 1. The Dairy Arts Center. January 1. 2- 1. 4Comedy Works Downtown Very few comedians have amassed television r. Yet with an HBO special, two one- hour Showtime specials and guest appearances on The Late Show With David Letterman, Conan, Maron and Real Time with Bill Maher all under Gould's belt, he has hours of material waiting to delight the newly initiated. He has also had prominent guest roles on shows like Anger Management, Seinfeld and in the dirty- joke- etymology documentary The Aristocrats. Behind the camera, Gould was a co- executive producer of The Simpsons and a producer on NBC’s Parks and Recreation. His monthly podcast, The Dana Gould Hour, is a hilarious and inventive exploration of what the medium can do. Lately, Gould has been working behind the scenes as the creator and executive producer of IFC's Stan Against Evil, a horror- comedy series that doesn't skimp on the scares. Check Westword's Arts & Culture section later this week for a full Q& A with Gould. Showtime for the Dairy Arts Center show is 7: 3. Dairy Center's box office page for tickets and more information. Comedy Works showtimes and admission prices vary; visit Comedy Works' events calendar for details and to buy tickets. Sexpot Comedy Presents Ben Kronberg. Thursday, January 1. The Oriental Theater. Ben Kronberg is among the most successful of Denver comedy expatriates, having amassed an impressive list of credits and accomplishments since moving to New York. After his high- profile appearances on Late Night with Seth Meyers, John Oliver's New York Standup Show and the Comedy Central Half Hour, it's always a pleasant surprise to see Kronberg drop in at ignominious Denver open mics to weird people out — but he has always made a point of returning home to the scene where he developed his outr. With his puckish wit and an impermeable poker face on stage, he's the sort of comic who inspires outlandish stories and admiration from his peers. Kronberg is currently at work on a web series called . Join the prodigal Denverite and local comics Rachel Weeks, Zac Maas and Janae Burris for this fitting homecoming show at the Oriental. Tickets are $1. 0 via the Oriental Theater events calendar. Sexpot Comedy Presents Gad Elmaleh. Thursday, January 1. Gothic Theatre. One of Europe's most famous working comedians, Gad Elmaleh recently relocated to New York to make his mark on the American entertainment industry. Stateside, Elmaleh is probably best known as a character actor who stole scenes in films like Midnight in Paris,The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn and The Dictator, but he's been performing one- man shows in Paris since the ’9. Coco, a European box- office smash. Born in Morocco, the multilingual Elmaleh is a truly international performer for whom America is the last frontier of stardom. Though newly arrived to the States, Elmaleh has been welcomed with his A- list pedigree, appearing on Conan, The Late Show With Stephen Colbert and Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. Get tickets, $3. 0- $3. What a Joke: A National Comedy Festival Supporting the ACLUThursday, January 1. Syntax Physic Opera. In these dubious times, even Americans' most vital civil rights feel threatened, which makes the efforts of organizations like the American Civil Liberties Union more crucial than ever before. That's why New York comedians Jenn Welch and Emily Winter spearheaded the What a Joke National Comedy Festival, a series of simultaneous standup showcases in cities all over the country (with a European outpost held in Oxford, England) with the shared goal of raising funds for the ACLU while laughing all the way through Trump's inauguration. Join co- hosts Timmi Lasley (creative director of El Charrito's Comedy Room Room) and Kyle Pogue (co- founder of Fort Comedy), who've invited Christie Buchele and Chicago's Brittany Meyer to join other surprise guests, for the Denver edition of What a Joke. Though the shows aren't directly affiliated with the ACLU, proceeds from ticket sales and prize raffles will be donated to the organization. Hate may have taken the electoral college, but laughter can still win the day. Read on for five more of January's best comedy shows. Dell XPS 1. 3 review: Mac. Book Air fanboys, look no further for your rumored unicorn. As PC fan boy No. I cannot lie: Apple. Most manufacturers would have settled for an 1. Apple. It's 0. 6 inches at its thickest. Gordon Mah Ung. Small indeed: Dell. Give all three laptops a nice, long stare. It looks like someone took the display from the MBA1. MBA1. 1. Dell offers base 1. For people who think only. The 1. 3- inch Mac. Book Air, with 1. The 1. 1- inch model actually offers slightly more Retinameters of 1. But even the 1. 3. Mac. Book Pro Retina's high- res screen is but 2. Both sizes of XPS 1. MBA in technology as well as resolution. The Mac. Book Air models use mere TN screens (albeit better examples of the genre), while the XPS 1. IPS. For anyone who does color- critical work such as photo editing or design, TN can. The 2. 01. 4 Think. Pad X1 Carbon I used for comparison, for example, is rated at 3. I measured it at about 2. The XPS is rated at an eye- searing 4. I measured 3. 99 nits. One thing I did see was a three- inch by one- inch, mustache- shaped discoloration when looking at a uniform white screen with the brightness up. That may be a defect in this particular review unit. The company said other units don. Instead, Dell puts it in the lower left corner of the XPS 1. Your videoconference colleagues will see part of your hand while you. The end result is the promise of better battery life and somewhat better CPU and graphics performance. Meanwhile, I compared the XPS 1. Haswell- based Lenovo Think. Pad X1 Carbon. In our Handbrake test, we take a 3. GB 1. 08. 0p resolution MKV file and transcode it to a far more manageable size for viewing on an Android tablet. Despite having a lower Turbo Boost clock, the XPS 1. Lenovo X1 Carbon by a good margin. The XPS 1. 3 easily outruns the older X1 Carbon in this pure CPU test. One thing to keep in mind when comparing the two, however, is the Core i. U in the XPS 1. 3 actually has a lower- rated turbo frequency of 2. GHz, compared to 2. GHz for the Core i. U in the X1 Carbon. During my tests though, the XPS 1. GHz, while the X1 Carbon ran in the 2. GHz range. Instead, I ran PC Mark 8. The XPS 1. 3 and its Broadwell U once again came out on top. PCWorld. The better graphics core in the Broadwell U helps keep it ahead of the Haswell U in the Lenovo. The last benchmark chart I. Again, the Broadwell U in the XPS 1. X1 Carbon, but gamers shouldn. The test uses popular real- world applications such as Chrome, Office 2. Photoshop CS6, and Premiere Pro CS6 to perform various tasks at 1. Mobile. Mark 2. 01. You type, pause, use your phone for a few minutes and then go back to typing. Then you task- switch to email. Mobile. Mark actually lets the laptop. Mobile. Mark 2. 01. OEMs for testing, so we. Keep in mind, the XPS1. Our Mobile. Mark 1. Office- drone tasks puts the battery life at 1. The XPS 1. 3 with the 1. Dell crams the important keys (function keys don. Travel is rated at 1. Gordon Mah Ung. The one big compromise you. Even the Mac. Book Air 1. XPS 1. 3, gives the keyboard 1. To see whether the smaller keyboard would impact my typing, I took an online test on the X1 Carbon and the XPS 1. I typed at 7. 2 wpm on the X1 Carbon and 7. XPS 1. 3, producing six errors both times. On a full- sized Corsair K6. I hit 8. 8 wpm. The keyboard on the XPS 1. Despite the cramped quarters, my palms didn't cause cursor jump, but there was also no way to adjust palm rejection on the XPS 1. One final spec to mention in the XPS 1. Mac. Book Air battle is the SSD. The XPS 1. 3 uses an M. SSD, but it conforms to the SATA portion of M. PCIe drive. I saw sequential reads and writes in the 4. MB/s range. That's decent, but PCIe- based storage devices like in the Mac. Book Air can reach close to 8. MB/s. Dell said it has plans to release a PCIe- based SSD for the XPS 1. Before the Apple crew stars to crow though, I should mention the M. Haswell- based Mac. Book Airs aren't actually M. The XPS 1. 3 gives you good performance and great battery life in an incredibly compact and solid- feeling package. Even the pricing is almost reasonable. This model with its 2. GB SSD, 8. GB of RAM and QHD+ touchscreen costs $1,4. That XPS 1. 3 comes with a 1. IPS panel, 1. 28. GB SSD and 4. GB of RAM. At $8. 00, it packs components.
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