Mark Furler
Digital Editor at News Corp
Mark Furler is the national digital editor for News Corp's regional and community titles. Views expressed here are his own.
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1 week ago |
news.com.au | Mark Furler
It’s probably not what it’s designed for, but there’s something nice about being able to keep track of your teenager’s comings and goings. My youngest son, who is training to be a paramedic, is in and out of the house at all hours. Whether it’s off to the gym for a workout, going to university, heading off to work, zipping out for a run, and going out with friends, the teenager is always on the move. Bunkered down in my home office, sometimes I don’t know whether he’s home or not.
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1 month ago |
news.com.au | Mark Furler
Imagine being at a meeting and you get a notification on your phone that your fridge door is open. With no one meant to be home, you wonder whether the pooch is somehow trying to raid the leftover chicken. From your phone you send your smart robotic vacuum cleaner with a camera on patrol to actually find your son has returned home from uni early. Welcome to the world of the smart home, where your fridge can scan items as you load them in and you can put a use-by date to minimise food wastage.
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2 months ago |
couriermail.com.au | Matt Collins |Mark Furler
When Sam Childers was a hired gun for drug dealers he feared dying over something stupid. A heroin addict at 15, he had quit school, moved out of home and ended up selling hard drugs on a large scale before becoming an enforcer. After almost getting killed in a really bad bar fight in his 20s, he knew had to change his life.
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2 months ago |
couriermail.com.au | Mark Furler |Iwan Jones |Andrew Hedgman |Andreas Nicola
The Sunshine Coast has been swamped by almost 140mm of rain with roads cuts, rescues carried out, and waterways raging. More than 130 road closures were listed on the Sunshine Coast Council’s disaster hub on Saturday afternoon including 85 local roads. Across Qld, there had been 204 requests for help from SES with most of the jobs structural, followed by flooding and trees down. There were 29 calls for help in Gympie, 24 on the Sunshine Coast and 15 in Noosa.
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2 months ago |
news.com.au | Mark Furler
After reviewing phones for years, you can become something of a tech snob. You expect the very best features, but the question you should really ask yourself when buying a phone with your own money is what do you really need? With the cost of living having more of us questioning every purchase or deal we sign up for, it’s prudent that we should consider how much we are paying to have the latest technology. But there are some fundamentals that we should now demand.
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