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A quick comparison of the WHOIS results for each and this verbatim copy of the article seems to suggest the "San Francisco Telegraph" is a thinly veiled extension of RT:

https://www.rt.com/news/513966-spotify-monitor-emotions-pate...

It isn't directly relevant to the subject of this article, but a search for this headline/copy shows it has permeated a lot of right-wing and other questionable sources of info, but appears nowhere else.

https://www.editorials360.com/2021/01/29/in-spotify-music-li...

https://www.newswars.com/spotify-wins-patent-to-surveil-user...

That said, the patent it references may not be all that new:

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=H...




Ok, since the rt.com article appears to be the canonical source, we changed the URL from https://www.thesanfranciscotelegraph.com/technology/3678/in-... to that.

Edit: actually there are lots of media articles about this story. I've changed the URL from https://www.rt.com/news/513966-spotify-monitor-emotions-pate..., to https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-55839655, which is one of the more substantial ones.



I looked at that one too but BBC's seemed more informative.


> 13. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising: an emotion processor having one or more sequences of emotion processor instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, causes the one or more processors to generate an output adapted to an emotion detected in a natural utterance;

Mad software patenting skills.




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