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

7 ways gen AI can create more work than it saves

Nov 13, 2024

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

AI-powered 6G wireless promises big changes

Feb 12, 2024
The next-gen technology is still years away, but 6G wireless could enable futuristic high-bandwidth, low-latency applications.
Assessing and quantifying AI risk: A challenge for enterprises

Assessing and quantifying AI risk: A challenge for enterprises

Jan 30, 2024
Risks associated with artificial intelligence have grown with the use of GenAI and companies must first understand their risk to create the best protection plan.
5 data center predictions: Surging demand and tighter rules squeeze operations

5 data center predictions: Surging demand and tighter rules squeeze operations

Jan 29, 2024
Rising workloads, tougher sustainability regulations, and cost pressures will increasingly squeeze data center operators in 2024 and force tradeoffs between business expansion and infrastructure reliability.

Latest quantum computing articles

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What is quantum cryptography? It’s no silver bullet, but could improve security

Mar 12, 2019

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

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VMware Cloud gains faster ransomware recovery, expanded management capabilities

Aug 22, 2023

Among the announcements at the VMware Explore conference is a new IBM-managed service based on VMware Cloud editions.

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Cloudflare Expands Email Security and WAF, Announces API Security Service

Mar 16, 2022
This morning, Cloudflare announced a new API Gateway service to help companies manage their API security at a low cost.
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AWS, Azure Vulnerabilities Would Have Allowed Access To Other Customers’ Accounts

Mar 11, 2022
AutoWarp is no longer a problem thanks to a centralized patching effort.
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Network Encryption: A Double-edged Sword for Cybersecurity

Mar 8, 2022
How do you protect the recipient when you can’t see inside the message?

Latest Networking articles

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VMware NSX+ centralizes cloud networking and security for multicloud environments

Aug 22, 2023

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

Judge, 2019 CSO50 awards

Maria is one of the judges of the annual CSO50 awards, which recognize 50 organizations for their security project or initiative that demonstrates outstanding business value and thought leadership.

Judge, Epica Awards

Maria is a member of the jury of the 2018 Epica awards, the only global creative prize judged by journalists.

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

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May 2016: Interviewed by the BCC about how virtual reality will change our lives. Listen to the broadcast hereRead the transcript here.

Sep. 2015: Mentioned in Fortune’s Meet the women shaping our virtual future.

Latest Blog Posts

Why Britney Spears’ bare bottom is a good thing

Apr 12, 2007
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Note: This blog post also ran in the Society of Professional Journalism’s “Journalism and the World” blog. Click here to see the original post (and…

Hiring again

Apr 11, 2007
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Note: This blog post also ran in the Society of Professional Journalism’s “Journalism and the World” blog. Click here to see the original post. I’m…

My "movie star" theory of expat dating

Apr 9, 2007
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Note: This blog post also ran in the Society of Professional Journalism’s “Journalism and the World” blog. Click here to see the original post. I…

How to get people to talk to you on the telephone

Apr 5, 2007
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Note: This blog post also ran in the Society of Professional Journalism’s “Journalism and the World” blog. Click here to see the original post. Being…

Setting up a database (warning: technical details inside)

Apr 4, 2007
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Note: This blog post also ran in the Society of Professional Journalism’s “Journalism and the World” blog. Click here to see the original post. This…

I wish I had (a) Second Life

Apr 3, 2007
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Note: This blog post also ran in the Society of Professional Journalism’s “Journalism and the World” blog. Click here to see the original post. I’m…