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
Red Hat’s AI portfolio evolves to address enterprise deployment challenges
Red Hat has expanded its AI portfolio with tools designed to simplify the transition from experimentation to production environments.
Data center growth puts unprecedented pressure on power grids
Fast vs. slow: the real impact of AI adoption speed
12 AI predictions for 2025
Latest quantum computing articles
Amazon claims to cut quantum computing timeline by 5 years with new Ocelot chip
Amazon Ocelot chip will cut error correction overhead by 90% and bring practical quantum computing closer to fruition, but some experts are skeptical
Quantum Computing for the Pharmaceutical Industry
Quantum Computing for the Supply Chain – Delivering New Efficiencies
How Quantum Computing is Supporting Financial Services
Latest Cybersecurity 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).
Generative AI poised to make substantial impact on DevSecOps
How GenAI helps entry-level SOC analysts improve their skills
Assessing and quantifying AI risk: A challenge for enterprises
Latest Networking articles
Network convergence will drive enterprise 6G wireless strategies
Enterprise wireless deployments are facing a significant inflection point, according to a new industry roadmap.
VMware, Nvidia team on enterprise-grade AI platform
Hybrid mesh firewall platforms gain interest as management challenges intensify
Flight to cloud drives IaaS networking adoption
Gartner: SSE landscape shifts as vendors add more security services
5G network slices could be vulnerable to attack, researchers say
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
Six years ago, DabbleDB was shut down. It was a major blow, since I had been using their easy but powerful online database for everything…
A couple of my friends have been redoing their professional portfolio websites lately, which inspired me to do some research on current trends in business…
I work with a lot of beginning freelance writers, and enjoy seeing them move up to larger publications. They all understand the need to improve…
I learned this at a business seminar in Shanghai a few years ago, and no longer remember the source, but it’s proved extremely effective for…
Tomorrow is the last day for Dabble DB, an online database services on which I ran my company for the past few years. The migration…
Just take those manuals off the shelf I’ll sit and read them here all by myself Today’s software ain’t got the same soul I like…