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
5 top business use cases for AI agents
AI agents are poised to transform the enterprise landscape, from automating mundane tasks to driving customer service and innovation. But having strong guardrails in place will be key to success.
Google claims breakthrough with Willow quantum computing chip but no real-world use yet
Cost, security, and flexibility: the business case for open source gen AI
10 most critical LLM vulnerabilities
Latest quantum computing articles
Microsoft braids anyons into topological cubits on new Majorana quantum chip
Majorana 1 is the first quantum processor with a topological core, designed to scale to a million qubits on a single chip.
What is Quantum Computing and What Does It Have to Do with Encryption?
Managing Encryption for Data Centers Is Hard. And It Will Get Harder
Quantum Teleportation Makes Progress, But Toward What?
Latest Cybersecurity articles
Ransomware recovery: 8 steps to successfully restore from backup
The best way to recover from a ransomware attack is to have a reliable and fast backup process. Here’s how to do it.
3 ways to fix old, unsafe code that lingers from open-source and legacy programs
Data loss prevention vendors tackle gen AI data risks
5 areas where zero trust can’t protect your organization
Latest Networking articles
Data center certifications target newcomers, experts, and sustainability pros
Data center certifications remain valuable for IT career advancement even as the industry transforms, with programs adapting to cover everything from traditional infrastructure to AI, sustainability, and security.
Commercial quantum networks inch closer to primetime
Enterprises turn to single-vendor SASE for ease of manageability
NTT, Palo Alto partner for managed SASE with AIOps
Pros and cons of managed SASE
What to expect from SASE certifications
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
My business partner Fons Tuinstra and I were interviewed today by David Iwinski of American Entrepreneur Radio on his The International Capitalist best two-way radio…
If you have two companies producing the same product then, over time, the price to the consumer will eventually start to hover just above the…
Another one of our clients — a Wall Street newspaper — shut down publication this month. A couple of staffers were reassigned, the rest laid-off.…
Over the past few years, my company has become very dependent on DabbleDB, an online relational database run by a Canadian startup — since sold…
I do not, normally, consider myself a low-energy person — I am, after all, running two companies (Trombly International and the China Speakers Bureau) and…
DabbleDB, the online relational database platform that our company runs on, has been bought by Twitter. And, according to Dabble’s founders, Twitter has no interest…