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
IT leaders: What’s the gameplan as tech badly outpaces talent?
With the pace of gen AI adoption accelerating across all business sectors and functions, required skills are increasingly in demand — but the people out there able to meet needs are in short supply.
11 key roles for AI success
10 most critical LLM vulnerabilities
Cloudera jockeys for AI platform prominence
Latest quantum computing articles
Quantum networking takes off… into space
Boeing plans to send a satellite into space to facilitate quantum communications, the company announced at the Quantum World Congress.
China’s Quantum Net Advance Offers a Glimpse into the Future of Enterprise Security
Quantum Computing Could Make Today’s Encryption Obsolete
Experts split on how soon quantum computing is coming, but say we should start preparing now
Latest Cybersecurity articles
Post-quantum encryption: Crypto flexibility will prepare firms for quantum threat, experts say
NIST standards for quantum-safe encryption are due out this summer. As quantum computing advances, enterprises need to consider their encryption infrastructure and post-quantum security strategies.
3 strategies that can help stop ransomware before it becomes a crisis
Hybrid mesh firewall platforms gain interest as management challenges intensify
Why API attacks are increasing and how to avoid them
Latest Networking articles
VMware upgrades software-defined edge for AI workloads
VMware added connectivity options and traffic-management capabilities to its software-defined edge products to better support generative AI workloads.
How SASE uses AI
Who’s selling SASE and what do you get?
10 ways IT can navigate the chip shortage
Gartner: SSE is SASE minus the SD-WAN
Top 10 outages of 2021
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
In the past, wars were fought over resources. The definition of power was the ability to collect a great deal of physical wealth — land,…
Back in the old days … 2004 … we had to buy our foreign-language books in hotel shops — and had as many as five…
A Massachusetts court signed off on my divorce last week – after about three years of separation in which my ex and I weren’t in…
I’ve finally found a system that works for keeping my inbox at a manageable size (one screen or less), a variation of the GTD system.…
Today (well, it’s after midnight, so it was yesterday) I attended a Meetup of the Northampton Web Developers/ Web Designers Meetup Group. Excellent, excellent meeting.…
I don’t know if anyone remembers this, but there used to be days… the days of BitNet… when using the Internet meant a command-line interface…