Nearly 60% of Brazilians feel they aren't spending enough quality time with their family. Stories, fights and gossip were once shared around the dinner table, but now these interactions often happen over Facebook and email. Does the family that WhatsApps together stay together?

Intel hopes to change the way we interact with voice recognition software by removing the cloud from the process. Speech data will be processed on the device, not sent to servers - which causes delay and lag.

No drop-down lists, no scrolling menus, no hyperlinks and not one single image. The new website from Brazilian production company Croacia Audio is completely blank, and to navigate your way from the 'homepage' to the 'contact us' form you must converse with your computer.

From messaging to social media to a marketplace to browsing the internet, WeChat is the app the does everything. While Western companies and app developers race to unbundle their services into efficient single-purpose apps, WeChat continues to add feature after feature.