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7NEWS
06-08-2025
- Business
- 7NEWS
Best-selling mattress brand beloved by Aussies launches huge birthday sale
As Aussies hang on through the end of winter in hope of a warm spring, many will be turning their minds towards a giant spring de-clutter and overhaul. This is where Original Mattress & Furniture (OMF) comes in. The popular brand beloved by thousands up and down the country has launched a huge 19th birthday sale, where shoppers can save up to 60 per cent for the next 11 days. One of the best deals available is on the Revivify Support Queen Mattress, which is down to just $799 from $898. Dubbed OMF's 'best-selling bed in a box', the Revivify Mattress promises to deliver comfort, support and convenience in three different comfort feels to suit every sleeper. Shoppers can choose from plush, medium or firm comfort. Those who have invested in the Revivify mattress love the fact that it has five-zone pocket springs and gel visco lumbar form which provides targeted back support and motion isolation. The mattress has an impressive five-star rating from customers who have invested in it. 'Love my new Revivify mattress, ' wrote one happy customer. 'So comfortable, not too soft but also not too hard. Have had incredible nights sleep since I purchased it. Highly recommend for someone looking for a new mattress but not wanting to drop a massive amount of money!!' Another added: ' My family's third mattress purchase from OMF and we've never been disappointed. Excellent quality, price and customer service! Would recommend OMF to anyone'. Another top-selling item on the OMF website is the Urban Support Queen Mattress, which has been reduced from $3,698 to $1,590. As OMF's top premium mattress, this has seven-zone pocket springs, German ASW lumbar support, and charcoal-infused Eco Memory Foam for targeted support and long lasting comfort. ' Very firm and supportive. Have not had a sore back since I purchased this six months ago,' one shopper wrote. ' Blown away by this mattress, ' another added.
CNA
24-07-2025
- Business
- CNA
Police investigating alleged S$500,000 construction equipment scam after 3 firms duped
SINGAPORE: Three firms have made police reports against a consultancy company over an alleged construction equipment scam, after rented machines worth about S$500,000 (US$392,000) went missing in recent months. The affected rental companies told CNA they did not receive payment from the firm, Revivify, which also turned out to have a bogus company address. Investigations are ongoing, said the Singapore Police Force in response to CNA's queries. 'RAISED MY SUSPICIONS' One construction equipment firm, New Town Engineering, said a representative from Revivify first reached out to them in May to ask about renting two excavators. The man paid for a month's rental in June. When New Town asked if he wanted to extend the lease, he agreed but requested a grace period to make payment, which New Town accepted. 'However, when we visited his office, we were actually told that there's no such company at this address,' said a New Town employee who only wanted to be known as Anne. She added that they were not the first ones to show up at Revivify's registered office at International Plaza. 'This raised my suspicions and I tried to (find out) where my excavators were. But the customer self-collected and delivered to his own site so we did not have details of the address,' she said. 'We didn't want to alert him that we knew it might be a scam, so we contacted him and asked for the location of the excavators, which he did give. But unfortunately, there is no such address.' Revivify was registered as a company in 2021 for port and maritime related consultancy services. When CNA visited its registered address, the office was occupied by another company. Revivify did not respond to CNA's attempts to contact them. According to New Town's police report, the firm eventually tracked one of its excavators down to a work site at 29 Penjuru Lane. After roughly 10 hours of administrative tussle involving the police, New Town was able to reclaim its excavator. But the company could not locate its other machine or contact Revivify. Anne said their losses came up to around S$55,000 to S$60,000. She added that when she made enquiries within the industry, she realised another company – Cherly Equipment Service – had lost four excavators worth a total of S$240,000 to the same alleged scammer. Cherly's CEO and managing director Tang Siang Hong said three of the machines belonged to his firm, while one was owned by a friend. ASKED FOR SPECIAL EQUIPMENT Revivify also approached a third company, Multi Ways Equipment, to rent welding machines and wheel loaders. The latter are used at construction sites to move or load materials like soil or rock. 'They seemed to know the industry well because they requested special equipment to be installed on the wheel loader, things like cameras, sensors, to accommodate the safety on site. Hence, we went on with the deal,' said a Multi Ways employee who only wanted to be known as Derrick. He said the Revivify representative initially wanted the machines delivered to Seletar North for a project, but changed the site to 29 Penjuru Lane in late May when the equipment was ready. Derrick allowed Revivify to inspect the machines there. But when he asked when they would be sent to Seletar North, he did not receive a clear response. 'So, I went down on Jun 10 to … have a look. When I reached there, it looked like just bare land, like a dumping ground,' he added. Derrick found just one of the wheel loaders there. Three others worth about US$200,000 remain missing and may not be in Singapore anymore, he said. The company received a letter from Revivify after it tried to retrieve its equipment. The letter was signed off purportedly by Revivify's in-house legal team, claiming Multi Ways had breached the deal. Multi Ways did not hear back from Revivify after that. Moving forward, Derrick said he will be placing trackers on its equipment and conducting more background checks on hirers. "As a rental company, every (piece of) equipment is a stream of income … so when this machine is immediately lost, this is loss of income for the company,' he lamented. 'There are many people that suffer (from this). It's not good for business and it makes us very wary of our next few clients.'
Yahoo
28-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
D&D-skewering, Disco Elysium-inspired RPG Esoteric Ebb had me trying my best to be a cleric while my Intelligence stat kept telling me to become a wizard-king
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Waking up in a morgue in the updated demo for Disco Elysium-like RPG Esoteric Ebb, the first thing I did was check out the other body lying in there with me. It's hard to tell what's a brand new interaction compared to my run through Esoteric Ebb's original demo versus pre-existing stuff uncovered by a fresh character build—I went all in on Intelligence and Wisdom this time. While I couldn't determine a cause of death, I did discover that this guy didn't have insurance: He was marked as a viable candidate for some good old fashioned D&D-style resurrection magic, but nobody had done the deed. "He clearly did not have an RF. A Revive Fund," my Intelligence chimed in, calling to mind the interior adventuring party/Greek chorus of Disco Elysium's personified skills. "Nor did he have family members with enough ready cash. Or maybe he was just an unlikable fellow. Who knows?" My altruistic Wisdom suggested I revive this man with a valuable third-level spell slot, which the more pragmatic Intelligence immediately shot down. How will I get anything done if I try saving every lost life I come across? More ominously, what if they don't want to come back? Either way, it's a moot point for the demo. I'd have to pack on way more levels than this preview had room for and find a scroll of Revivify out in the world to boot. But the interaction is illustrative of everything that's got me excited about Esoteric Ebb, evidence that it's not just crying "Disco Elysium" for attention from a hungry RPG community, but that it can back it up with the thoughtfulness, charm, and dense, replayable design that Disco's legacy calls to mind. This body, one of the first things I saw in the starting room, is a potential game-spanning mystery, an "ooooh, I gotta come back for that" little tease that'll have me making tracks for the morgue the second I unlock Revivify in the final game—even if it's just to quicksave, resurrect the guy to find out he's an ungrateful asshole, and promptly quickload. Image 1 of 9 Image 2 of 9 Image 3 of 9 Image 4 of 9 Image 5 of 9 Image 6 of 9 Image 7 of 9 Image 8 of 9 Image 9 of 9 Since the last time I checked in with Esoteric Ebb, lead developer Christoffer Bodegård secured a publisher, Raw Fury, leading to this updated demo, a new trailer, and a sheen of "we have a budget now" over everything. Esoteric Ebb already had a lovely cel-shaded art style, but everything has more depth and detail now, like when a cartoon gets a theatrical movie and all of a sudden there's shadows and way smoother animation. Esoteric Ebb's soundtrack is also noticeably expanded, with a vibe of "chill beats to fail skill checks to" that calls to mind Tunic or Hyper Light Drifter's dreamy soundscapes. The new demo consists of two core quests, same as the original: Deciding what to do with a group of protesting dwarves and the Pinkerton half-orc trying to get them to go home, and a sort of dialogue boss fight with a goblin queen that resembles the first Evrart Claire scene from Disco Elysium. The playable area of the town has been expanded, though, while the game has gotten a bit more forgiving and approachable. Character creation is more clear about how to effectively build the cleric, including helpful sample builds, and the dice rolls seemed to go my way a bit more this time around. Even though you are a cleric—that's even what people call you despite your optional insistence on a skill check-gated, possibly misremembered given name—you can build your guy however you want. Max out Strength and Constitution like a dumb brute fighter, or go all in on Charisma and Dexterity like a wannabe rogue, the game takes note of this and has a bit of fun at your expense. My brainiac Intelligence kept insisting I was actually a wizard, unlocking new dialogue options to that effect. It even opened up choices to insist I would become wizard-king of the city, or to express support for the cryptofascist "rule by wizards" political party in the upcoming elections. Esoteric Ebb has a "D&D rules pushed to their logical conclusion" sensibility that's half-Planescape and half-Shrek. One conversation implied that character alignment is a genuine force that can impact the world, while a lecture on magic hell law from a Lawful Evil imp is still my favorite conversation in Esoteric Ebb so far. Esoteric Ebb is very much imitating Disco Elysium from its user interface to some of its core conceits, but its more zany sense of humor, as well as its clever use of Dungeons & Dragons tropes and mechanics, have the potential to send things in an interesting new direction. Esoteric Ebb does not have a set release date, but you can check out its demo for yourself and wishlist it on Steam. 2025 games: This year's upcoming releasesBest PC games: Our all-time favoritesFree PC games: Freebie festBest FPS games: Finest gunplayBest RPGs: Grand adventuresBest co-op games: Better together
