About Maria Korolov
Maria Korolov is an award-winning tech journalist who covers cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and extended reality.
She’s also a science fiction author and the editor and founder of MetaStellar, an online magazine of speculative fiction, and of Hypergrid Business, one of the world’s top virtual reality blogs.
Contact her at maria@korolov.com to pitch articles or to hire her as writer, editor, or speaker at your event.
Latest AI articles
3 areas where gen AI improves productivity — until its limits are exceeded
Even though generative AI is a relatively new technology, it’s now difficult to imagine a world without it, given the impact it’s making, and the business value it can create. According to a research report IDC released in November, based on a survey of over 2,100 business leaders and decision makers with responsibility for AI transformation, 71% of companies already using AI are seeing returns on their AI investments within 14 months,…
How GenAI helps entry-level SOC analysts improve their skills
For IT leaders, operationalized gen AI is still a moving target
AI-powered 6G wireless promises big changes
Latest quantum computing articles
Error-correction breakthroughs bring quantum computing a step closer
Quantum computing is still in its infancy, easily beaten by traditional computers. One of the biggest challenges? The fact that quantum bits — qubits — are much more fragile than the bits in silicon computers, so a lot more redundancy is required. In fact, today’s quantum computers require thousands or even tens of thousands of qubits in order to create one, usable, functional, logical qubit. The solution? Error correction. “Error…
Cybersecurity in a Post-Quantum World
Commercial quantum networks inch closer to primetime
Quantum Computing for the Pharmaceutical Industry
Latest Cybersecurity articles
How GenAI helps entry-level SOC analysts improve their skills
Security operations centers (SOCs) are using generative AI systems to automate repetitive triage and documentation tasks, allowing entry-level security analysts to spend more time on investigations, crafting responses, and developing core skills. It may not be a magic bullet, but the technology can be another useful weapon in the analyst’s arsenal, increasing accuracy, providing a knowledge base, and gathering information quickly and efficiently. GenAI writes prompts, explainers so analysts can…
Assessing and quantifying AI risk: A challenge for enterprises
3 ways to fix old, unsafe code that lingers from open-source and legacy programs
Data loss prevention vendors tackle gen AI data risks
Latest Networking articles
AI-powered 6G wireless promises big changes
The next evolution in wireless communication, 6G is expected to arrive in 2030, driven by ever-increasing demands for speed and bandwidth from the explosive growth in connected devices and AI. 6G (sixth-generation cellular) will deliver significant improvements in security, resilience, reliability, latency, connection density, traffic capacity, spectrum efficiency, and user data rates, compared to 5G. It is expected to be 50 times faster than 5G, with a top-end, theoretical speed of 1Tbps, compared…
5 data center predictions: Surging demand and tighter rules squeeze operations
Data centers unprepared for new European energy efficiency regulations
5 ways to boost server efficiency
8 top industries for private 5G
Hot (and not hot) networking skills
latest Awards
latest Appearances
Guest Speaker: VWEC Expert Series
Profile: Sam Whitmore Media Survey
SANS Attack Surface Management Solutions Forum 2022: Building Resilience in the Face of Cyber Conflict
Guest Speaker: VWBPE 2022 Conference
Metaverse presentations: OpenSimulator Community Conference
Informa Webinar: Doing More IT With Less
MetaStellar: Setting up a WordPress website with DreamHost in 15 minutes
IDG Zero Trust Webinar
MetaStellar Interview: How we launched in a pandemic
BrightTalk cybersecurity panel
CIO Magazine New Reality Event
Look Left podcast
IDG Tech Talk: CCPA Revisited
InformaTech’s Cybersecurity Bootcamp
IDG Tech Talk: CCPA
older Awards and Appearances
Jan. 2018: Maria Korolov talks with Sine Wave about “Succeeding As A Retailer In Immersive Worlds.”
Dec. 2017: Speaker at Stereopsia conference in Brussels, Belgium. Topic was women in virtual reality. Click here for slides.
Dec. 2017: Speaker at OpenSimulator Community Conference. Topic was a statistical overview of OpenSim development. Click here for slides.
Apr. 2017: Profiled in Viar360’s Women of VR – 35 Ladies Who Are Killing It In Virtual Reality
Aug. 2016: Mentioned in Marie Claire’s Virtual Reality Has a Female Mafia—and They’re Looking for New Recruits
May 2016: Interviewed by the BCC about how virtual reality will change our lives. Listen to the broadcast here. Read the transcript here.
Sep. 2015: Mentioned in Fortune’s Meet the women shaping our virtual future.
Latest Blog Posts
Virtual assistant illustration created with Midjourney. Read my Midjourney review here. I’m working on a lot of projects these days. As…
Writing is all about the text. But marketing and promotion is often all about the images. Whether you’re sharing with your audience on Twitter, Facebook,…
A few days ago I wrote about how to use the free online app Miro to plot out a story. That’s all well and good…
A year ago, when the pandemic first hit, I wrote an article for CIO magazine about how to manage software development teams when you can’t…
Last month, I posted an article about a bunch of ways writers can use to beat procrastination. But maybe you want to go deeper on…
Have you ever stared at your screen or typewriter or notebook and couldn’t force yourself to write? You had the time block set aside for…