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1 week ago | the-tls.co.uk | Ian Sansom |Tim Parks |Irina Dumitrescu |Regina Rini

On a bright, chilly morning in Cambridge, England, a few weeks ago – as a New Yorker “Talk of the Town” piece might have it – about 150 people gathered at the University of Cambridge’s Computer Laboratory, a place not nearly as exciting as it sounds, for a one-day symposium to celebrate the life and work of Ross Anderson, FRS FRSE FREng and, until his untimely death last year, professor of security engineering at the university.

1 week ago | the-tls.co.uk | Ben Wilkinson

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1 week ago | the-tls.co.uk | Lindsey Hilsum |Adam Sutcliffe |Thomas Small |Lawrence Douglas

It was the year Pink Floyd released The Dark Side of the Moon and David Bowie had a red-and-blue lightning bolt painted on his face for the cover of Aladdin Sane. The Rolling Stones went to No 1 in the US with “Angie” and Elton John sang “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road”. 1973 was also the year when rock’n’roll was born in Greenland.