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.
Follow her on Twitter at @MariaKorolov, on Threads at @MariaKorolov, and check out her latest videos on the Maria Korolov YouTube channel.
Latest AI articles
What gives IT leaders pause as they look to integrate agentic AI with legacy infrastructure
Complexity and security are primary concerns but enterprises first have to ensure they have a modern stack.
Can the CIO role prevail over AI?
Broadcom’s vision for VMware highlights private clouds, private AI
VMware Cloud Foundation gains AI model store, other updates
Latest quantum computing articles
What Microsoft’s error-correction milestone means for usable quantum computing
In an achievement claimed to usher in a new era of quantum computing, Microsoft and Quantinuum showcase logical qubits with error rates up to 800 times lower than physical qubits.
Latest Cybersecurity articles
AI agents can find and exploit known vulnerabilities, study shows
In a somewhat chilling revelation, AI agents were able to find and exploit known vulnerabilities, but only under certain conditions, which researchers say indicates they’re not close to being a significant threat – yet.
5G network slices could be vulnerable to attack, researchers say
Insured companies more likely to be ransomware victims, sometimes more than once
Siemens focuses on zero trust, legacy hardware, supply chain challenges to ensure cybersecurity of internal systems
Latest Networking articles
Microsoft Entra Suite is late to the SSE pool but will still make waves
Despite being late to market, Microsoft’s secure service edge (SSE) offering has some advantages, including cost and ties to Microsoft’s identity access management services.
Cisco adds specializations to its CCNP cert
Network certs 2021: Significant raises for the right ones
Cisco CCNA certification explained
Energy company deploys edge devices to improve drilling efficiency
Network training 2021: Businesses grow their own IT expertise to meet new challenges
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latest Appearances
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
I don’t see a lot of hits for “editorial process outsourcing” in Google — but this is exactly what we do. Publications have been doing…
The Culture Matters show aired last week. People could watch me every night at 6:30 p.m., then again the next day around noon. Finally, this…
I took some time away from work to see some elephants, as long as I was in Thailand. I was with Tim Phillips, editor of…
Today I gave a talk about global and Asian petfood industry trends at a conference in Bangkok. One of our clients is Petfood Industry magazine,…
A beginning freelancer asked me today whether he should be a writer or an editor — and whether he could do both. At the end…
Last Friday night, a bunch of us journalists slash bloggers slash entrepreneurs — and, in Shanghai, who isn’t these days? — were sitting around talking…