This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through June 3)

BIOTECH

These Color-Changing Tattoos Monitor Your Health, No Wearable Needed
Katharine Schwab | Fast Company
"Researchers are getting closer to turning the skin into an interface, while designers imagine what these interfaces might look like. Do they come in the form of a tattoo, like Vega suggests, or a temporary tattoo that doubles as a circuit? Do they act like a second skin?...Either way, there’s a whole lot more to explore on the surface of our skin."

ROBOTICS

Incredibly Soothing Robot Makes Towers of Balanced Stones
Evan Ackerman | IEEE Spectrum
"With careful planning and a delicate touch, this robot arm is learning to autonomously build towers out of balanced pieces of limestone...The overall idea here is that eventually, robots will be able to take advantage of hyper local building materials (like the nearest pile o’ rocks) and make useful, environmentally friendly structures out of them without the need for either processing or adhesives (like concrete)."

SILICON VALLEY

Uber Just Fired the Engineer at the Center of Its Legal Fight With Google
Timothy B. Lee | Vox
"Levandowski’s firing removes a potential headache for Uber, but the company still has some serious problems. On the one hand, Uber needs to convince the courts that it did not, in fact, base its design for a key sensor on Waymo’s own designs. At the same time, Uber needs to continue making progress on its own self-driving technology."