The soft-serve machines at McDonald's restaurants are so often out of order that their reliable unreliability have long been the butt of jokes, memes — and now even a rallying cry in this year’s ...

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 ...

The unfortunate reality of owning a refrigerator with an ice maker is that it can fail, which is not ideal during warmer weather. On the bright side, ice makers are also relatively simple machines ...

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 broken McDonald’s ice cream machine finally has a happy ending. You see, ...

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 ...

Ice cream machines at McDonald's famously break frequently. NPR's Scott Simon speaks to journalist Jason Koebler from 404 Media about a new exemption that allows third parties to fix them. Do you ever ...

McDonald’s often maligned, seemingly perennially-broken ice cream machines could soon become a thing of the past. On Oct. 25, the United States Copyright Office ...

Anyone who has ever made a late night visit to McDonald's knows the pain of being told the ice cream machine is down. Over the years, numerous customer have complained on social media platforms and ...

The U.S. government wants to make it easier to fix McDonald’sMCD1.12%increase; green up pointing triangle ice-cream machines, whose problems have for years annoyed lovers of the McFlurry. Frequent ...