/r/technology top posts: May 17, 2021

1. Texas Wants To Charge Tesla & Other EV Owners ~$400 In Annual Fees For Owning An EV\ (2077 comments)

2. Humanity wastes about 500 years per day on CAPTCHAs. It’s time to end this madness\ (1211 comments)

3. Bill Gates was dismissive toward Melinda Gates at work and pursued female employees at Microsoft and the Gates Foundation\ (456 comments)

4. Elon Musk suggests Tesla may have dumped bitcoin holdings\ (439 comments)

5. Apple-Epic Judge Asks Why Offering iOS Users a Choice Is Bad?\ (103 comments)

6. ESA partners with startup to launch first debris removal mission in 2025\ (65 comments)

7. GameStop FOMO inspires a new wave of Crypto pump-and-dumps — Discord groups promise big earnings by manipulating the crypto market\ (59 comments)

8. Microsoft Directors Decided Bill Gates Needed to Leave Board Due to Prior Relationship With Staffer\ (22 comments)

9. Scammers are using a network of fake apps to steal funds from crypto newbies\ (20 comments)

10. Inside the Hidden World of Legacy IT Systems\ (19 comments)

11. ‘Twitter Blue’ subscription service to include undo tweets feature and ‘Collections,’ priced at $2.99\ (19 comments)

12. Beijing Ramps up Fake Social Media Operation Peddling Pro-China Propaganda Overseas\ (12 comments)

13. US Power Sector Is Already Halfway to Zero Carbon Emissions - New Berkeley Lab study\ (6 comments)

14. AT&T is reportedly in talks to merge its media business with Discovery\ (6 comments)

15. Flared natural gas latest prize in bitcoin miners' energy quest\ (6 comments)

16. Researchers Demonstrate Sarcasm Detector for Online Communications\ (6 comments)

17. GameStop FOMO Inspires a New Wave of Crypto Pump-and-Dumps\ (4 comments)

18. 'Through the looking glass': How conspiracy theories wreck lives\ (4 comments)

19. AT&T, Discovery in talks to combine content assets - Bloomberg News\ (3 comments)

20. Governments are deploying ‘wartime-like’ efforts to win the global semiconductor race\ (1 comments)

21. U.S. wind, solar and battery storage capacity boomed during first quarter\ (1 comments)

22. Japan's Sharp reaps fruits of Apple ties in LCD business\ (1 comments)

23. New leak ahead of Google I/O claims Android 12 may include changes for widgets and notifications\ (1 comments)

24. SolarWinds breach exposes hybrid multicloud security weaknesses\ (0 comments)

25. Indonesian web giants Gojek and Tokopedia merge to create Asian super-app\ (0 comments)