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Costco sales rise 8% in June amid e-commerce, international growth
Chain Store Age
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July 9, 2025
Costco Wholesale Corp. reported a strong June as consumers shopped for summer deals and its international division racked up a big increase. The membership warehouse club retailer reported that its sales rose 8% to $26.44 billion for the retail...
Saab receives order for additional CB 90 assault craft for Sweden
Janes
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Powered by twin Scania DI16 V8 diesels, the Stridsbåt 90HSM is capable of achieving speeds exceeding 40 kt. (Saab) The Swedish Defence Material Administration (Försvarets materielverk: FMV) has awarded a contract to Saab for the supply of...
The potential inflection point for the European battery industry
fDi Intelligence
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Europe has long since run out of domestically produced batteries. According to data by Fraunhofer ISI, the continent accounts for 25% of global battery demand, despite accounting for just 10% of global production. As of 2023, 80% of this demand...
PostProcess now has 50 patents solving 3D printing post-processing issues
3D Printing Industry
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July 10, 2025
Post-processing systems manufacturer PostProcess Technologies has been granted its 50th patent highlighting the company’s ongoing focus in automating one of the overlooked stages of additive manufacturing. Based in Buffalo, New York, the company...
Stanford-led team shares honor for ‘revolutionizing’ study of high-energy cosmic phenomena
Stanford News - California
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July 7, 2025
The universe looks different when seen through NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Where the human eye sees deep black space with twinkling stars, Fermi shows a blazing strip of gamma rays, the highest-energy form of light, extending across...
New radio station begins broadcasting from Stockholm public sauna
Mixmag
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July 7, 2025
A new radio station has launched within a public sauna in Stockholm. Sauna Radio began broadcasting on Saturday (July 5) from Eden Bastun, near Lake Mälaren; the radio's "floating deck" booth is set close to one of the venue's saunas, with a...
Europe’s First AI Fighter Jet Took Off Over the Baltic Sea and This Could Soon Change the Face of Warfare
ZME Science
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July 10, 2025
A Swedish JAS 39 Gripen takes off from Bodö airport. Credit: Public Domain. This May, high above the Baltic Sea, a Swedish Gripen E fighter jet sliced through the air, with no pilot at the controls. During two exercises conducted in May and June,...
The US Military Emits More CO2 Than Sweden. But A Slight Budget Cut Could Have an Oversized Positive Effect
ZME Science
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July 7, 2025
When it comes to climate change impact, few institutions have cast a longer and heavier shadow than the United States military. Its footprint extends far beyond geopolitical frontiers, reaching into the very atmosphere that sustains us. Now, a new...
EU supercharges EV battery manufacturing with €852m funding
Innovation News Network
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July 7, 2025
This landmark investment, sourced from the EU’s Emissions Trading System via the Innovation Fund, marks a major step in Europe’s push to become a global leader in EV battery production. As demand for electric vehicles surges and the world shifts...
August rate cut may be off the table with Sweden’s inflation surge to 2.9%
Cryptopolitan
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July 7, 2025
Sweden’s inflation rate climbed to 2.9%, past analyst expectations, leading many to doubt whether the central bank will move forward with its anticipated August rate cut. In May, the country’s CPIF was 2.3%; thus, many analysts’ forecasts ranged...
European spending drops as trade tensions hit consumer wallets
Euronews
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July 7, 2025
Published on 07/07/2025 - 11:44 GMT+2 Retail sales in the eurozone fell at their steepest monthly rate in nearly two years in May, as growing uncertainty over US trade tariffs weighed on consumer sentiment and curbed spending. According to first...
H&M adopts bodycam strategy amid industry trend to reduce retail shrinkage
Apparel Resources
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July 7, 2025
Image Courtesy: https://www.retailgazette.co.uk/ In an attempt to combat the rising rates of stealing and violent attacks on employees, H&M is the most recent retailer in the UK to provide body cameras to its employees. In response to mounting...
World Associated Press Underwater turbine spinning for 6 years off Scotland's coast is a breakthrough for tidal energy
Yahoo News
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Submerged in about 40 meters (44 yards) of water off Scotland's coast, a turbine has been spinning for more than six years to harness the power of ocean tides for electricity — a durability mark that demonstrates the technology's commercial...
Alma and Rexbo Acquire Light Industrial Properties in Greater Stockholm
FM Industry
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July 7, 2025
Alma Property Partners and Rexbo Gröna Industrihus have acquired three light industrial property assets within the Länna industrial area of Stockholm’s Huddinge municipality in two separate transactions. Huddinge Fräsen 6 & 7 and Huddinge...
Underwater turbine spinning for 6 years off Scotland’s coast is a breakthrough for tidal energy
Winnipeg Free Press
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July 7, 2025
Submerged in about 40 meters (44 yards) of water off Scotland’s coast, a turbine has been spinning for more than six years to harness the power of ocean tides for electricity — a durability mark that demonstrates the technology’s commercial...
Indy Jazz Fest announce headliners and Sunset Series, tickets on sale
Indianapolis Recorder
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July 10, 2025
Indy Jazz Fest returns next month, featuring a lineup of musical icons and innovators — and tickets go on sale July 11. Presented by Citizens Energy Group, Indy Jazz Fest is the premier event of the Indianapolis Jazz Foundation — celebrating the...
IKEA Just Launched Two Inexpensive Bluetooth Speakers
VICE
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July 10, 2025
You’ve got to give IKEA credit. Even as much as I screw up my nose over the flimsiness of even their solid wood products, given their over-reliance on cam locks and wooden dowels, their designers are perennially among the very best in the...
High proportion of depression and anxiety in younger patients with COPD: a cross-sectional study in primary care in Sweden.
Physician's Weekly
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July 7, 2025
Therese Öfverholm NVS, Division of Family Medicine and Primary Care, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. Academic Primary Care Centre, Region Stockholm, Sweden. Mikael Hasselgren School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health,...
Public ownership of water in England and Wales is best way to improve industry, people’s commission finds
The Guardian
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July 7, 2025
Public ownership of the water industry in England and Wales is the best way to cut bills, improve pollution and invest in repairing infrastructure, according to a wide-ranging people’s commission into the industry. Set up by four academics with...
From Dar to Stockholm Kiswahili feels global
Daily News Tanzania
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July 7, 2025
DAR ES SALAAM: BACK home in Dar es Salaam, the sun played its part with a warm and breezy weekend, while in Stockholm (in this late spring) tulips were still showing off and Swedes debated if the sun was ever going to return, something...