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
10 ways hackers will use machine learning to launch attacks
AI and machine learning are improving cybersecurity, helping human analysts triage threats and close vulnerabilities quicker. But they are also helping threat actors launch bigger, more complex attacks.
Weighing risk and reward with gen AI vendor selection
Upskilling ramps up as gen AI forces enterprises to transform
5 ways to deploy your own large language model
Latest quantum computing articles
A New Type of Network Is on the Rise to Combat the Quantum Threat to Encryption
“Quantum-proof” encryption algorithms won’t be entirely quantum-proof. Quantum key distribution networks could be the answer.
Latest Cybersecurity 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.
How attackers sidestep the cyber kill chain
Gartner: SSE is SASE minus the SD-WAN
Enterprises Need To Prepare for Broader Cyberwar
Latest Networking articles
VMware combines SASE and edge management in new orchestration platform, announces private 5G service
News from the VMware Explore conference includes a unified management platform for VMware’s SASE and edge computing stack, along with a new managed private mobile networking service.
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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