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
7 ways gen AI can create more work than it saves
As gen AI use continues to skyrocket, reports of business benefits are trickling in. But we’re also seeing more cases where the tech can actually create more work than it saves.
AI-powered 6G wireless promises big changes
Assessing and quantifying AI risk: A challenge for enterprises
5 data center predictions: Surging demand and tighter rules squeeze operations
Latest quantum computing articles
What is quantum cryptography? It’s no silver bullet, but could improve security
In the arms race between white and black hats, the infosec industry looks to quantum cryptography and quantum key distribution (QKD). That may be just part of the answer, however.
Latest Cybersecurity articles
VMware Cloud gains faster ransomware recovery, expanded management capabilities
Among the announcements at the VMware Explore conference is a new IBM-managed service based on VMware Cloud editions.
Cloudflare Expands Email Security and WAF, Announces API Security Service
AWS, Azure Vulnerabilities Would Have Allowed Access To Other Customers’ Accounts
Network Encryption: A Double-edged Sword for Cybersecurity
Latest Networking articles
VMware NSX+ centralizes cloud networking and security for multicloud environments
VMware NSX+ is a new cloud-managed service that enables consistent network operations and centralized security policy creation and enforcement in multicloud environments.
latest Awards
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
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