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 ...

Stacey Leasca is an award-winning journalist with nearly two decades of newsroom experience. She is also the co-founder of Be a Travel Writer, an online course for the next generation of travel ...

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 ...

As prices keep rising, more people are fixing what they have instead of buying new. Repairing things saves money, cuts down on waste, and extends the life of what you already own. From clothes to ...

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 ...

BUSINESS THAT RECENTLY MOVED TO STOCKTON DUM DUM DUM DUM DUM DUM WITH GLEAMING CHROME AND BRIGHT CANARY YELLOW AND RED PAINT, THIS MACHINE IS POISED AND READY FOR A QUARTER, BUT IT’S NOT IN A CASINO.

McDonald’s troubled ice cream machines are iFixit’s next right-to-repair target. McDonald’s troubled ice cream machines are iFixit’s next right-to-repair target. is a news writer who covers the ...

McDonald’s ice cream machines have garnered an infamous — and comical — reputation for always being broken. So much so that soon-to-be-president Donald Trump made a campaign promise to repair the ...

It's a Wednesday evening in a town hall in Penryn in Cornwall, and my friend Pete and I are volunteering at our local repair ...

Brendan and Annie Fitzgerald, owners of FitzCo, stand inside SpareMe Bowl & Arcade on Wednesday, where they were hosting FitzCo’s monthly internationally ranked pinball tournament in Iowa City. The ...