About Maria Korolov
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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
Weighing risk and reward with gen AI vendor selection
In mid-November, OpenAI’s board fired the CEO of the company, Sam Altman, the guy who put ChatGPT on the map and ushered in a new era of corporate AI deployments. Within the next three days, nearly all of the company’s employees said they’d walk out the door, and the fate of OpenAI looked extremely uncertain. Entire businesses have been built on top of OpenAI and its APIs. According to an…
What is a chatbot? Simulating human conversation for service
What is sentiment analysis? Using NLP and ML to extract meaning
What is AIOps? Injecting intelligence into IT operations
Latest quantum computing articles
Latest Cybersecurity articles
How ChatGPT Can Help and Hinder Data Center Cybersecurity
The world changed on Nov. 30, when OpenAI released ChatGPT to an unsuspecting public. Universities scrambled to figure out how to give take-home essays if students could just ask ChatGPT to write it for them. Then ChatGPT passed law school tests, business school tests, and even medical licensing exams. Employees everywhere began using it to create emails, reports, and even write computer code. It’s not perfect and isn’t up to date on current news,…
SASE Model Proving Value Beyond Remote Work Scenarios
Paying Hackers’ Ransom Demands Is Getting Harder
OMIGOD Vulnerability Exposes Virtual Machines Running Inside Azure
Latest Networking articles
Who’s selling private 5G and what do you get?
Private 5G is technology that can be used in local area networks. Not to be confused with the public 5G connectivity offered by telephone companies, private 5G is used in corporate campuses, office buildings, factories and warehouses, event venues, and airports, either instead of or in addition to Wi-Fi. According to an unpublished survey from research firm Forrester, 44% of corporate telecommunications decision-makers plan to create private 5G networks. Industries with significant private 5G…
latest Awards
latest Appearances
older Awards and Appearances
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Jan. 2018: Maria Korolov talks with Sine Wave about “Succeeding As A Retailer In Immersive Worlds.”
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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 here. Read the transcript here.
Sep. 2015: Mentioned in Fortune’s Meet the women shaping our virtual future.
Latest Blog Posts
Looking for outlets to send you abroad is actually the *last* step of a going-overseas process.The first thing is, you need to ask yourself a…
I’ve been a freelancer for most of the past ten years, and have also edited the work of many freelancers in various editing jobs. Read…