Gen AI can be the answer to your data problems — but not all of them
There are currently 143 million people waiting for surgeries in lower income countries. And there are organizations ready to bring…
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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.
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Latest AI articles
How guardrails allow enterprises to deploy safe, effective AI
Google has finally fixed its AI recommendation to use non-toxic glue as a solution to cheese sliding off pizza. “Glue, even non-toxic varieties, is not meant for human consumption,” says Google Gemini today. “It can be harmful if ingested. There was a bit of a funny internet meme going around about using glue in pizza sauce, but that’s definitely not a real solution.” Google’s situation is funny. The company that…
Gen AI can be the answer to your data problems — but not all of them
Key considerations to cancer institute’s gen AI deployment
Red Hat seeks to be the platform for enterprise AI
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…
Quantum Computing for the Pharmaceutical Industry
Quantum Computing for the Supply Chain – Delivering New Efficiencies
How Quantum Computing is Supporting Financial Services
Latest Cybersecurity articles
AI agents can find and exploit known vulnerabilities, study shows
Researchers at the University of Illinois gave a team of autonomous AI agents a CVE description of a vulnerability and the agents were able to autonomously find and exploit the vulnerability in a test environment in April. Two months later, the same researchers showed that those teams can now find and exploit previously unknown vulnerabilities. They tested the agents by selecting a list of severe vulnerabilities that were discovered after the cut-off training…
The state of ransomware: Faster, smarter, and meaner
Generative AI poised to make substantial impact on DevSecOps
How GenAI helps entry-level SOC analysts improve their skills
Latest Networking articles
Red Hat unveils image mode for its Linux distro
At the Red Hat Summit this week, the company unveiled a new container image deployment method for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The new option is designed to streamline operations, enhance consistency across hybrid cloud environments, and accelerate the adoption of cutting-edge technologies like AI and machine learning. Typically, containers trim down operating systems as much as possible because they run within a host OS, says Bradley Shimmin, chief analyst for…
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
VMware NSX+ centralizes cloud networking and security for multicloud environments
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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
According to WrittenWordMedia’s 2019 author survey, more than 75 percent of successful book authors — those making $60,000 a year or more from their writing…
“Show, don’t tell” is the first lesson of Fiction Writing 101, and one of the easiest and quickest fixes is to replace the emotional adverbs…
Our master list of best resources for writers of fantasy, horror and sci-fi. Writing advice sites Writer’s Knowledge Base: Huge database of more than 40,000…
We’ve just started doing the initial design of the website for MetaStellar, our new magazine of speculative fiction. The magazine will officially launch on September…
I use Google Docs. Most writers use Microsoft Word, Scrivener, or Google Docs to write their novels, with a few other, lesser-known platforms thrown in.…
Our list of great sites for beginning speculative fiction writers. Writer’s Knowledge Base Huge database of more than 40,000 articles about writing. Always my favorite…