New York City Tours

21 Best Views In NYC At Night To Take In A Manhattan Skyline View 
* One World Trade Center
Empire State Building
Rockefeller Center Top of the Rock
Hudson Yard The Edge
Columbus Circle
The High Line
Dear Irving on Hudson Rooftop
The Crown rooftop
Central Park Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir
* Roosevelt Island Tram
Refinery Hotel bar rooftop
Randall's Island Park Bronx
Gantry Plaza State Park Queens
Hunter's Point South Park Long Island City
Queensbridge Park
Brooklyn Bridge Park
Domino Park Brooklyn
Harriet's Rooftop & Lounge Brooklyn
WNYC Transmitter Park
* Staten Island Ferry
* Liberty State Park, Liberty Statue Crown tour

Rubber gloves

 Rubber glove natural rubber, latex, nitrile, vinyl, neoprene, pvc

Sex verification in sports

Sex verification in sports, List of intersex Olympians 

Differences/Disorders of sex development (Intersex 雙性人): Complete androgen insensitivity syndrome (Androgen insensitivity syndrome), XY gonadal dysgenesis (Swyer syndrome) XY性腺發育不全 

Paris Olympics row over Imane Khelif gender: What’s the sex development disorder that some girls are born with? 

Olympic boxing and disorders of sex development 

AI accelerator

AI accelerator Neural Processing Unit NPU, Digital signal processor DSP trillion operations per second 

Apple A11 iPhone 8/8 Plus/X, Neural Engine, 600 GOPS 
Apple A12 iPhone XS/XR/iPad 8/iPad Air 3/A12X iPad Pro 3 ce/A12Z iPad Pro 4, Next-generation Neural Engine, 8 cores, 5 TOPS 
Apple A13 iPhone 11/iPad 9 ks, 8-core, 6 TOPS 
Apple A14 iPhone 12/iPad 10 hl/iPad Air 4 kh, 4-6 GB, 16-core, 11 TOPS 
  Apple M1 iPad Air 5/iPad Pro 5 ca, 8- GB, 16-core, 11 TOPS 
Apple A15 iPhone 13/13 Pro/14 kh, 4-6GB, 16-core, 15.8 TOPS 
  Apple M2 iPad Air 6 2024/iPad Pro 6, 8- GB, 16-core, 15.8 TOPS 
Apple A16 iPhone 14 Pro/15 ca, 6 GB, 16-core, 17 TOPS 
Apple A17 Pro iPhone 15 Pro, 8 GB, 16-core, 35 TOPS
 Apple M3 Mac 8 GB, 16-core, 18 TOPS 
Apple M4 iPad Pro 7, 8 GB, 38 TOPS 

Qualcomm Snapdragon systems on chips: Snapdragon_8/8s Gen 3 (2024) 

Google Tensor with Tensor Processing Unit (Edge_TPU) used in Pixel Phones 

Microsoft Copilot+ PC Blog 

A guide to AI TOPS and NPU performance metrics 
* Qualcomm Snapdragon X series Elite/Plus DSP 45 TOPS, GPU 3.8-4.6 TFLOPS 

* AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX Series 300, Ryzen AI 300 series, 365/370 28W (15-54W) 50 TOPS, 375 55 TOPS, 

* Intel Core Ultra 200V Series Intel Core Ultra 7 17W (8-37W): 256V 16GB, 258V 32GB 47 TOPS, 266V 16GB, 268V 32GB 48 TOPS 

Intel AMX XMX Advanced Matrix Extensions in CPU, Xe Matrix Extensions in GPU 

Microsoft Copilot+ PC 40 TOPS, 16 GB memory, 256 GB storage 

Apple Intelligence ChatGPT-4o Code Completion 16GB 

Best chatbot ChatGPT alternatives Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini for live data, Microsoft Copilot creative, Perplexity research, Inflection Pi personal, xAI Grok social, Llama open source, MetaAI fun, Poe more choices comparison 

Taiwan - United States Banks

富達投資（Fidelity Investments）實現零手續費匯款的新選擇， Fidelity > Charles Schwab, 7-11 中國信托 > 全家 台新/國泰世華 local currency/deferred conversion/delay conversion exchange rate 延遲/拒絕匯率轉換, foreign exchange Wire transfer 電匯匯款 

Charles Schwab 

Capital One 360, 全家 國泰世華, 兆豐、遠東 ATM, 延遲換匯 

* CTBC Bank Chinatrust 中國信託商業銀行 中信銀 China Trust Financial Global Transfers 全球速匯, 
CTBC Bank USA locations 
中國信託全球速匯介紹（美國匯款到台灣篇） 

台灣帳戶設定為 beneficiary account, 再用 single wire 轉錢到台灣 

* 滙豐(台灣)商業銀行, HSBC Bank USA Premier 

* O-Bank 王道商業銀行 臺灣工業銀行, EverTrust Bank 華信商業銀行 

Internal combustion engine efficiency

Internal combustion engine ICE, Hybrid electric vehicle 

Hybrid vehicle drivetrain: Series hybrid , Range extender 

BMW i3 Range extender option (i3 REx) 647cc parallel-two, 34hp 41lb-ft @4300 rpm vs 59hp @7500 / 49lb-ft @6000 

Nissan HR engine 1.2L 1.4L e-power 
Nissan Kicks e-Power 1.2L 2020-2024 Kick e-Power 
Nissan Note 2017 model year update e-Power, Nissan Note Third generation (E13; 2020) 1.2L 3-cylinder 

Nissan KR engine Second Generation 1.5L turbo e-power 
Nissan X-Trail T33 1.5L 3-cyl X-Trail e-Power 2022- 

Nissan e-POWER's internal combustion engine achieves 50% thermal efficiency 
Nissan e-POWER control technology 
Nissan The further evolution of e-POWER control technology 

Mazda MX-30 single-rotor Wankel rotary engine 830cc 74hp 
馬自達為何在EV轉型大潮下讓轉子引擎復活？ 

Multipathway Workshop: Toyota, Subaru, Mazda 

Artificial tear drops - lubricants

Artificial tears lubricant 
Artificial tears potpourri: a literature review Liquid Polyol-based outperforms methylcellulose 

CMC/HPMC/Hyaluronic acid 玻尿酸 -> PEG 400/PG/Glycerin ->  Gel/Lipid 

preservative-free PF 10 ml, 0.33 floz, 300 drops 

*** Liquid Polyol-based: PVA/povidone: Alcon preservative-free bottle contact-lens Systane Complete PF: Propylene Glycol 0.6%; Systane Ultra,/Systane Hydration longer lasting, Polyethylene Glycol 400 0.4% + Propylene Glycol 0.3%, iVizia contact-lens friendly long 8-hrs Povidone 0.5% hyaluronic; Optase Glycerin Intense 0.2%, Allegro 0.35%, contact-lens MGD 0.9%; Oasis Tears PF Glycerin 0.25%; Biotrue Glycerin 0.5% 

** Methylcellulose-based:
-> Carboxymethyl cellulose Carboxymethylcellulose (CMC) Thera Tears single use, Allergan Refresh eyedrops, Refresh Relieva multidose bottle 0.5%+glycerin 0.9%  
-> Hypromellose hydroxypropyl methylcellulose (HPMC) Alcon GenTeal Tears preservative-free single-use 36/$15 

OCuSOFT retaine MGD