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
What’s a data engineer? An analytics role in high demand
Data engineers work for enterprises in various industries to help them manage and store the data they need to operate, and, increasingly, to support their AI initiatives.
Beyond the hype: 4 use cases that show what’s actually working with gen AI
Data center spending to top $1 trillion by 2029 as AI transforms infrastructure
Knowledge graphs: the missing link in enterprise AI
Latest quantum computing articles
D-Wave uses quantum to solve real-world problem
D-Wave explains how quantum supremacy can be used to handle more than theoretical problems
Error-correction breakthroughs bring quantum computing a step closer
Cybersecurity in a Post-Quantum World
Commercial quantum networks inch closer to primetime
Latest Cybersecurity articles
10 ways hackers will use machine learning to launch attacks
AI and machine learning are improving cybersecurity, helping human analysts triage threats and close vulnerabilities quicker. But they are also helping threat actors launch bigger, more complex attacks.
Breach and attack simulation tools: Top vendors, key features, how to choose
AI governance and cybersecurity certifications: Are they worth it?
The state of ransomware: Faster, smarter, and meaner
Latest Networking articles
Data center growth puts unprecedented pressure on power grids
Data center power demand is spurred by AI and other high-performance computing needs, researchers say.
5 ways to boost server efficiency
8 top industries for private 5G
Hot (and not hot) networking skills
VMware NSX+ centralizes cloud networking and security for multicloud environments
VMware combines SASE and edge management in new orchestration platform, announces private 5G service
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
I am putting together a writers’ Mastermind group, to meet Sunday mornings via conference calls, such as Skype or Facebook video. You can read my…
I use Google Docs. I tried a lot of other platforms — Word, Filemaker, Coda, and a bunch of others — but I like…
The Lost King of Krim, a novella of the Krim virtual world, is out on Amazon and other booksellers. Meanwhile, the series prequel, Krim Times,…
If you have a small business, and need a website where you can post your hours and contact information, some pictures, and a few articles,…
As an editor of a couple of different niche online publications, and a writer for some major tech magazines, I get dozens of unsolicited content…
In case you’re wondering what I’ve been doing with myself now that I’m not blogging about OpenSim as much, here’s an update. First, I’m super…