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Physical qubit counts have to continue to grow to hundreds of thousands.

From Barron's • May 21, 2026

Hundreds if not thousands of times, Humphrey will chuck the ball off the wall, back and forth, practicing complex shots, fakes and maneuvers, turning a vague idea into another mind-bending highlight.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

Fossil evidence helped us resolve a longstanding question, but only modern computing made it possible to narrow thousands of evolutionary scenarios, each informed by trait data for hundreds of species, into a single, coherent story.

From Science Daily • May 21, 2026

Elsewhere, we also found more evidence of flats in desirable locations which have lost tens of thousands of pounds in value.

From BBC • May 21, 2026

Griffins had always been delicate; they’d always been rare, for thousands of years.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell