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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Broken ice cream machines at McDonald’s restaurants have long been the source of frustration for customers and comedy in memes, but a new lawsuit alleges that McDonald’s stood in the way of technology ...

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 ...

The popular how-to website has applied for an exemption to the DMCA, which would prevent them from distributing a method to fix McDonald's ice cream machines. Reading time 2 minutes McDonald’s busted ...

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 ...