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 most critical LLM vulnerabilities
From prompt injections to model theft, OWASP has identified the most prevalent and impactful vulnerabilities found in AI applications based on large language models (LLMs).
Regulatory uncertainty overshadows gen AI despite pace of adoption
Advanced analytics challenges limit analytics, AI benefits
VMware, Nvidia team on enterprise-grade AI platform
Latest quantum computing articles
Quantum Computing Could Make Today’s Encryption Obsolete
Researchers at top university and corporate labs around the world are in a furious race to create the first practical, usable quantum computer. Quantum computers — which use quantum bits, or qubits — are capable of running computations impossible for existing technology. It promises to open up new possibilities in areas like medical research, artificial […]
Latest Cybersecurity 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.
Top Three Use Cases for AI in Cybersecurity
Cato adds fine-grained CASB controls to SASE platform
Top 10 outages of 2021
Latest Networking articles
Flight to cloud drives IaaS networking adoption
Demand for cloud connects/interconnects is rising as enterprises commit to multicloud and SaaS application environments, and that’s driving greater interest in IaaS cloud networking services, says IDC.
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
Kiska is learning Chinese in school, and seems to be adjusting pretty well. She brings home homework everyday of Chinese words (characters!) she has to…
I find that the transition from local business to national business pubs is very straightforward — my husband did it in a few months. Here’s…
To be a successful freelancer, you really have to focus on networking and marketing. I met my primary editor at a financial services convention, and…
Freelancing is not an easy life, but it is possible to make decent money doing it. Unlike fiction writing, whether you either hit it big…
When circumstances brought me back to the U.S. after living abroad, I found myself on a farm in western Massachusetts, disconnected from all my former…
A beginning writer asks: My editors keep messing up my stories. How can I keep that from happening? My advice: If your skin is the…