Stacey Higginbotham has covered technology for two decades, with work in Fortune (where she was a senior editor), MIT Technology Review, IEEE Spectrum, PCMag, and Gigaom. She created the Stacey on IoT newsletter and the Internet of Things Podcast, co-hosted TWiT's This Week in Google for years, and has worked with Consumer Reports on connected-device security policy. On TrueAction she covers the smart-home shelf, robot vacuums, cameras, doorbells, thermostats, and plugs, and weighs each one on whether it earns its place, what it costs to run, and how many subscriptions and apps it quietly adds.
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For TrueAction, Stacey covers the connected home end to end: the devices that automate a chore and the ones that just relocate it into an app. She weighs each pick against independent testing and the consumables, fees, and subscriptions it needs, and frames the verdict around total cost and hassle over a few years rather than the sticker. The scoring behind that sits in our testing standards.
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