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 ...

NEW YORK -- A broken McDonald's McFlurry machine, arguably one of life's greatest nuisances, has finally been solved thanks to a court ruling. McDonald's franchises haven't been able to fix the soft ...

Every few weeks, usually at night, I have a sudden craving for vanilla soft serve from McDonald’s. But just as I start to fantasize about the immaculate, snow-white swirl, I remember the futility of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s a McDonald’s phenomenon that has inspired memes, apps and even a government inquiry. “If that McFlurry machine is broken, I’m ...

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 ...

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 ...

An exemption to a longstanding copyright act allows industrial equipment to be fixed by people not affiliated with the manufacturer. By Hank Sanders McDonald’s ice cream machines, frequently the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A court ruling might make McDonald’s ice ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Making homemade vanilla ice cream in a machine - Kattecat/Shutterstock There are a lot of pros to making your own ice cream at ...