Unusually, the search giant designs its own servers. For the first time, Google unveils one publicly, showing a surprise built-in battery. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

Google has joined the Open Compute Project and plans to contribute a new rack specification to run the infrastructure in its data centers. With the addition of Google, most of the hyperscale cloud ...

Google and Rackspace are designing a server based on IBM’s upcoming Power9 processor, a sure sign that Intel is no longer the only game in town for cloud service providers. The companies announced ...

In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys ...