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
11 key roles for AI success
To maximize the business value of artificial intelligence, AI teams require a diverse range of skills and roles, from data scientists and domain experts, to strategic decision-makers.
How companies are putting embedded genAI to good use
GenAI in productivity apps: What could possibly go wrong?
Generative AI dominates VMware Explore news
Latest quantum computing articles
China’s Quantum Net Advance Offers a Glimpse into the Future of Enterprise Security
Chinese companies actively productizing quantum key distribution, which pushes communications security to a new level Earlier this month, China’s official news agency Xinhua announced the launch of a secure quantum communications network between Shanghai and Beijing. The 2,000 kilometer (1,243 mile) backbone will be used for military and government communications, but also in commercial areas […]
Latest Cybersecurity articles
3 strategies that can help stop ransomware before it becomes a crisis
For those hoping to avoid the pay-or-not-to-pay ransomware dilemma, there are three things to focus on that can help CISOs: create incident response plans, improve cybersecurity posture, and invest in robust backups.
By Looking at the Past, New Cyber Board Can Prepare Us for the Future
Latest Cisco VPN Router Vulnerabilities Pose Risks To Small Businesses – And Their Partners
Denial of Service Attacks Expected To Get Bigger, Nastier
Latest Networking articles
Hybrid mesh firewall platforms gain interest as management challenges intensify
Different types of firewalls, including hardware, virtual, cloud-native, and firewall as a service, can be deployed and managed from a central interface with a hybrid mesh firewall platform.
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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
Going overseas definitely gave my career a big jump start — I went from covering local school board meetings in the Chicago suburbs to covering…
Jonathan Schwartz is President and Chief Operating Officer of Sun Microsystems, Inc. He answered some questions for me for a story on blogging, but only…
The Foreign Correspondents’ Club in Shanghai is an extremely active organization. It hosts talks with news makers as well as cultural and social events. Several…
The oldest (Anastasia, or “Kiska,” who’s 9) has been enrolled in, and is going to, school. A local Chinese school — five minute walk from…
The paperwork is reportedly moving along to make me an official foreign correspondent in China, and the business cards are on their way. It’s time…
Well, it’s been two weeks for us here in Shanghai. Anastasia has settled into her new school and is making progress in learning Mandarin, as…