WasoeTech - Last week in tech: Fast cars, Facebook Dating, and Android 10

WasoeTech - Supercars exist in a weird space. Most of us will never get to drive one, let alone own one, but we remain fascinated by their impressive feats of meticulous engineering and absurd aerodynamics. Bugatti recently pushed a near-stock version of its Chiron supercar up over 300 mph, which required ridiculous preparation, like X-raying each tire to look for tiny imperfections. You have to respect that kind of obsession.

So, while Apple will dominate next week’s tech news cycle with its new iPhone and whatever else it has planned for its event on Tuesday, this week, we can sit back and imagine what it’s like to break speed records on meticulously manicured German race tracks and catch up on this week’s big stories.

This week started off on the Labor Day holiday here in the U.S., but that couldn't keep us away from the podcast studio. We dropped a short-but-very-sweet episode of Techathlon this week, in which producer Jason teased our brains with 10 tech trivia questions. We'll be back in full-force on Monday the 9th. You can listen in the player embedded above, subscribe via iTunes, add us on Stitcher, follow us on Anchor, and even find us on Spotify.

The Sonos Move is a $400 portable speaker that weighs more than six pounds and stands 10-inches high. The specs are slightly outrageous, but we got a chance to check out the new sound machine in person and were impressed. Look for a full review in the coming weeks in which I use it to blast death metal in my backyard to test the directional nature of the speaker's soundstage.

Facebook's dating service made its debut

If you're looking for love, Mark Zuckerberg is ready to play cupid for you on the Facebook Dating service, which rolled out this week. You can add friends to a Secret Crush list and if you end up on their list, the service will alert both of you so the romantic comedy phase of your lives can finally begin. I'd like a similar feature that lets you unfriend people you regret adding in the first place. If you end up on each other's Secret Regrets list, you're automatically unfriended and no one speaks of it ever again.

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