Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It has been a long road for McDonald's ice cream machines, and it hasn't always been sweet. But now, the story of the eternally ...

Consumer advocacy group Public Knowledge today hailed a decision by the US Copyright Office to “grant an exemption specifically allowing for repair of retail-level ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A McDonald's restaurant at dusk with illuminated golden arches and a large red sign in the foreground. The days of McDonald's ...

The U.S. government wants to make it easier to fix McDonald’sMCD-0.07%decrease; down pointing triangle ice-cream machines, whose problems have for years annoyed lovers of the McFlurry. Frequent ...

The ice cream machines at fast food giant McDonald's are so prone to breakdowns that they've spawned thousands of memes. And now, one repair company wants a copyright exemption to fix them. In a video ...

McDonald’s soft-serve ice cream machines are regularly broken, and it’s not just your perception. When repair vendor and advocate iFixit was filming a video about the topic, it checked tracking map ...

Editors Note: According to our infallible record keeping, this is the 50,000th post published on Hackaday! We weren’t sure this was the kind of milestone that required any drawn out navel-gazing on ...

The agencies asked the US Copyright Office to extend the right to repair to ‘commercial and industrial equipment.’ The agencies asked the US Copyright Office to ...

Meredith Rose’s children wanted ice cream on the long drive to her parents’ house for Thanksgiving last year, so she stopped at a McDonald’s and ordered an Oreo McFlurry. A few minutes later, the ...

The popular e-commerce site iFixit wants Congress to allow it to fix the chronically broken ice cream machines used at McDonald’s franchises. The move comes a year after a couple sued the fast food ...

If you want a McFlurry, there’s about a one-in-four chance that the machine making it is broken. The problem is so common that there’s a website that tracks it and an FTC investigation asking hard ...