Maria Korolov on Muck Rack

Maria Korolov

Verified
(She/Her)
Boston
As seen in: CIO, CSO, Hypergrid Business, MetaStellar, Network World, ZDNet, SearchBusinessAnalytics, TechTarget, ITpro, Computerworld, Computerworld Australia, CIO UK, ComputerWeekly.de, AllAfrica, Data Center Knowledge and
Covers:  Cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, networking, extended reality.
Doesn't Cover: Consumer technology.
Tech journalist, author. Threads: @mariakorolov, LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/mariakorolov/, YouTube: www.youtube.com/@Maria_Korolov

Get in touch with Maria

Contact Maria, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.

Learn more about Muck Rack

Actions

Share this page

Maria Korolov’s Biography

Read Full Bio →

Email me at maria@korolov.com to suggest story ideas and sources.

I cover artificial intelligence for CIO magazine, cybersecurity for CSO, quantum computing and networking for Network World, and write for other publications as well.

During the height of the pandemic, as something to do, I founded MetaStellar, an online magazine of speculative fiction. We've since published more than 1,000 stories, nearly 250 videos, two anthologies, and are working on serializing our first full-length novel -- …

Maria Korolov’s Journalist Portfolio

See all →
AI's biggest risk factor: Data gone wrong

AI's biggest risk factor: Data gone wrong

Artificial intelligence and machine learning promise to radically transform many industries, but they also po…

View article →
How AI will impact your IT career

How AI will impact your IT career

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are eating up workloads at IT help desks, in cybersecurity, and …

View article →
The future of ERP is AI

The future of ERP is AI

Artificial intelligence and machine learning have been shaking up many areas of business, from cybersecurity …

View article →
SEC's new cybersecurity guidance falls short

SEC's new cybersecurity guidance falls short

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued new guidance in February, urging senior executives and bo…

View article →
The global cyber war is heating up: Why businesses should be worried

The global cyber war is heating up: Why businesses should be worried

Last Friday, the Department of Justice indicted 13 Russians and three Russian companies for interfering with …

View article →
New cryptocurrencies offer better anonymity, new security challenges

New cryptocurrencies offer better anonymity, new security challenges

A new crop of anonymous cryptocurrencies, which are less traceable and offer greater privacy than Bitcoin, ar…

View article →

Articles

Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for July 3, 2026

|
By Maria Korolov Verified
| MetaStellar
Reading Time: 13 minutes Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for July 3, 2026 Did you know that Amazon has a list of the top-selling and free sci-fi and fantasy books? The list changes constantly — authors and publishers set their books to free temporarily to promote their work, and, of course, books move up and down in the rankings. Read on to find your fun free read for this weekend! And grab the books quickly because they don’t always stay free for long.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Jun. 26, 2026

|
By Maria Korolov Verified
| MetaStellar
Reading Time: 11 minutes Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for June 26, 2026 Did you know that Amazon has a list of the top-selling and free sci-fi and fantasy books? The list changes constantly — authors and publishers set their books to free temporarily to promote their work, and, of course, books move up and down in the rankings. Read on to find your fun free read for this weekend! And grab the books quickly because they don’t always stay free for long.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for June 19, 2026

|
By Maria Korolov Verified
| MetaStellar
Reading Time: 6 minutes Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for June 19, 2026 Did you know that Amazon has a list of the top-selling and free sci-fi and fantasy books? The list changes constantly — authors and publishers set their books to free temporarily to promote their work, and, of course, books move up and down in the rankings. Read on to find your fun free read for this weekend! And grab the books quickly because they don’t always stay free for long.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?
See all 1,492 licensed articles (2,592 Total)

Interview

See all →

What was your first job as a journalist?

My first paid writing gig was for the Ithaca Times.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Of course. I can do more than 100 WPM on an IBM Selectric.

Who's your favorite fictional journalist?

Murphy Brown.

Awards

See all →

American Society of Business Publication Editors National Gold Award

2020 - National Winner, AZBEE Awards of Excellence, Case History

5G is a wireless technology that is about to dramatically raise the bandwidth of cellular connections. So far, it hasn't been in wide use, but Whirlpool is deploying it at one of its plants to overcome the shortcomings of Wi-Fi that is being used to guide driverless vehicles at the facility. This article presents the problems as stated by Whirlpool and its solution as described by collaborators AT&T and Seegrid that are installing the 5G gear. It adds context about the current status of 5G and the prospects Whirlpool has for its further use in other facilities and for other purposes. With those bases covered, the article offers up lessons-learned for readers considering deploying 5G themselves.

View Award

American Society of Business Publication Editors Regional Silver Award

2018 - Regional Silver Award, Impact/Investigative

What is a supply chain attack? Why you should be wary of third-party providers

View Award

Azbee Awards Of Excellence

2025 - National Gold Award

Maria Korolov was awarded the Azbee National Gold Award by the American Association of Business Press Editors in May of 2025 for her Network World coverage of quantum computing.

View Award

Azbee Awards Of Excellence

2025 - Regional Silver Award

Maria Korolov was awarded the Azbee Regional Silver Award by the American Association of Business Press Editors, with two of her articles about AI and VMware part of the award submission.

View Award
 •  Privacy  •  Terms  •  Security and Legal  •   •   •   • 

© 2026 Muck Rack

SOC 2® Certified