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 things you should include in your AI policy
From understanding what AI means in the context of the organization to being compliant and not forgetting the role third parties play, here are ten key things to keep in mind when creating an AI policy.
IT leaders: What’s the gameplan as tech badly outpaces talent?
Packaged offerings promise to make AI infrastructure deployment easier
What gives IT leaders pause as they look to integrate agentic AI with legacy infrastructure
Latest quantum computing articles
IonQ, Alice & Bob roll out quantum breakthroughs
IonQ and Alice & Bob, have both announced breakthroughs that bring quantum computing closer to reality
Quantum networking takes off… into space
Post-quantum encryption: Crypto flexibility will prepare firms for quantum threat, experts say
What Microsoft’s error-correction milestone means for usable quantum computing
Latest Cybersecurity articles
10 most critical LLM vulnerabilities
Prompt injection and supply chain vulnerabilities remain the main LLM vulnerabilities but as the technology evolves new risks come to light including system prompt leakage and misinformation.
Post-quantum encryption: Crypto flexibility will prepare firms for quantum threat, experts say
Microsoft Entra Suite is late to the SSE pool but will still make waves
AI agents can find and exploit known vulnerabilities, study shows
Latest Networking articles
Internet upgrade part of a move towards 400/800G connectivity
DE-CIX Internet exchange operator announced plans to upgrade its New York backbone to 400G.
Intel builds world’s largest neuromorphic system
Data centers warm up to liquid cooling
AI-powered 6G wireless promises big changes
5 data center predictions: Surging demand and tighter rules squeeze operations
Data centers unprepared for new European energy efficiency regulations
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
This question has been coming up a lot lately, and there’s a whole speech I give about this, so I thought I’d write it down…
UPDATE FEB. 2021: Lately, I’ve been testing out a new online collaboration tool called Notion. The basic plan, which includes sharing with up to five…
New update, June 18: I’ve started a new virtual Zoom-based MeetUp group for speculative fiction writers. If you write science fiction, fantasy or horror, check…
Another tool useful for writers that I’ve talked about this one in writers’ meetings before is Otter.AI. It transcribes your dictation. You just talk, and…
A friend of a friend just called me, asking for advice on how to become a technology journalist. I promised to send him some links…
The Lost King of Krim, a novella of the Krim virtual world that was released last month, hit multiple Amazon category bestseller lists this month.…