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 inside of a Taylor C709 ice cream machine, as seen from the back with the cover over the electronics removed. (Credit: iFixit) Raising a likely somewhat contentious topic, iFixit and Public ...

Kourtnee covers TV streaming services and home entertainment. She previously worked as an entertainment reporter at Showbiz Cheat Sheet, where she wrote about film, television, music, celebrities and ...

It may soon get quicker and easier to get your McFlurry fix — and McDonald’s franchisees won’t have to break the law to make it happen. The US Copyright Office ...

When I was in junior high, my buddies and I would walk to McDonald’s after Friday night dances. On one occasion, my buddy, Tree, ordered a hot fudge sundae. The person taking his order asked if he ...

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 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 ...

There are days where it feels like nothing will ever change and the best thing you can do is just learn to tolerate mediocrity. Today is not one of those days. Public ...

An unlikely theatre for an act in the right-to-repair saga came last year in the form of McDonalds restaurants, whose McFlurry ice cream machines are prone to breakdown. The manufacturer had locked ...

You'll have no trouble buying burgers at McDonald's. But ice cream? That's another story, as correspondent David Pogue discovered at one franchise's drive-through. "I'm sorry," he was told, "we ...

Of all the mysteries and injustices of the McDonald’s ice cream machine, the one that Jeremy O’Sullivan insists you understand first is its secret passcode. Press the cone icon on the screen of the ...

If you’ve ever tried to get ice cream at a McDonald’s restaurant, there’s a better-than-average chance you were stymied in your quest for soft-serve goodness by an out-of-order ice cream machine. A ...