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
AI workloads set to transform enterprise networks
The explosive growth of AI applications is reshaping data center, edge and cloud networks.
Red Hat’s AI portfolio evolves to address enterprise deployment challenges
5 top business use cases for AI agents
SUSE expands AI tools to control workloads, LLM usage
Latest quantum computing articles
DARPA backs multiple quantum paths in benchmarking initiative
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected 15 quantum computing companies to help bring quantum computing closer, and is spending millions on the project.
Amazon claims to cut quantum computing timeline by 5 years with new Ocelot chip
Microsoft braids anyons into topological cubits on new Majorana quantum chip
IBM, Microsoft and Boeing mark advances in quantum computing
Latest Cybersecurity articles
Breach and attack simulation (BAS) tools buyer’s guide
From the editors of CSO, this enterprise buyer’s guide helps IT security staff understand what the various breach and attack simulation (BAS) options can do for their organizations and how to choose the right solution. Download the breach and attack simulation (BAS) tools buyer’s guide here.
10 most critical LLM vulnerabilities
Ransomware recovery: 8 steps to successfully restore from backup
NIST finally settles on quantum-safe crypto standards
Latest Networking articles
Packaged offerings promise to make AI infrastructure deployment easier
Cisco, HPE, and other vendors are rolling out enterprise AI packages that bundle GPUs, networking, storage and cooling tech into ready-to-deploy systems.
VMware Cloud Foundation gains AI model store, other updates
VMware upgrades software-defined edge for AI workloads
Main Line Health readies networks for ‘at home’ hospitals
Microsoft Entra Suite is late to the SSE pool but will still make waves
Red Hat unveils image mode for its Linux distro
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
Pre-made book cover sites offer low-cost, professional-looking covers for independent authors.
“Show, don’t tell” is the first lesson of Fiction Writing 101, and one of the easiest and quickest fixes is to replace the emotional adverbs…
Our master list of best resources for writers of fantasy, horror and sci-fi. Writing advice sites Writer’s Knowledge Base: Huge database of more than 40,000…
We’ve just started doing the initial design of the website for MetaStellar, our new magazine of speculative fiction. The magazine will officially launch on September…
I use Google Docs. Most writers use Microsoft Word, Scrivener, or Google Docs to write their novels, with a few other, lesser-known platforms thrown in.…
Our list of great sites for beginning speculative fiction writers. Writer’s Knowledge Base Huge database of more than 40,000 articles about writing. Always my favorite…