(Credit: iFixit) Raising a likely somewhat contentious topic, iFixit and Public Knowledge have challenged the manufacturer behind McDonald’s ice cream machines to make them easy to diagnose and ...

The federal government wants to make it legal for McDonald’s franchise owners to use a third-party hacking device to fix chronically broken ice cream machines after the fast-food giant was sued ...

Six months ago, a tiny startup called Kytch sued Taylor, the billion-dollar manufacturer of McDonald's notoriously broken ice cream machines. For years Kytch had sold a small device that hacks ...

McDonald's is being sued for $900 million by a company that created a product to fix the fast food chain's infamously broken ice cream machines. The start-up business, called Kytch, created a ...

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 ...

McDonald’s says its restaurants weren’t able to fix their ice cream machines because the company that manufactured the machines owned the copyright and exclusive rights to repair them ...

By Hank Sanders McDonald’s ice cream machines, frequently the subject of memes and ridicule from frustrated customers who say their quest for a cold treat is often thwarted by broken equipment ...