Not far away from clinching their 20th Serie A title, Inter host 17th-place Empoli at San Siro today. With a 14-point lead over Milan and just nine matches left to go in the season, it’s mostly just a formality for Inter at this point, but they’ll want to keep tallying wins as they chase the rare feat of hitting 100 points in a season.
The match starts at 2:45 p.m. ET and in the United States it will stream on Paramount+. But while it’s technically exclusive to Paramount+, that actually gives us a handful of different ways we can watch a free live stream.
As we just noted, the match is only available on Paramount+ but there are different ways you can watch a free live stream? How would that be the case? Well, that’s because there are three separate ways you can get a free trial of Paramount+:
Paramount+: The first way to get Paramount+ is–you guessed it–through Paramount+. The “Essential” plan, which includes all Serie A matches for the entire season, costs $6 per month (or $60 for the year) but comes with a seven-day free trial. You’ll watch the match on the Paramount+ app or website.
Amazon Prime Channels: If you have Amazon Prime (or you start a 30-day free trial of Prime), you can also get Paramount+ through Prime Channels. You’ll be getting all the same live and on-demand content, but you’ll watch on the Prime Video app or website instead. This option also comes with a seven-day trial.
DirecTV Stream: Finally, if you sign up for a free five-day trial of DirecTV Stream, which is a streaming service with 70-plus live-TV channels, you can include “Paramount+ with SHOWTIME” as an add-on. You can then go to the Paramount+ app or website and sign in with your DirecTV Stream credentials to watch the match.
All of these streaming services, of course, are US-only, which presents a bit of a problem if you’re currently outside of the United States. Fortunately, virtual private networks (VPN) are a thing. These services allow you to hide your IP address/location and connect to a digital server in the US (or another country of your choosing). This, in turn, gets you around any location-blocks and lets you stream content from wherever you want.
NordVPN is our recommendation thanks to its speed and amount of servers, but we’ve also put together some lists of the best VPN services and best VPN deals if you want to research some alternative options.
Some of the best shots in Grok Imagine’s AI-made Odyssey don’t contain actors. Ancient landscapes stretch into the distance. Close-ups of grimy hands suggest people who have touched something rougher than a keyboard. For a few seconds, the illusion holds.
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YouTube videos could soon look better without eating quite so much data, right? Thankfully, the platform plans to introduce a new video format called AV2 on its web player in early 2027, promising more efficient streaming and potentially fewer playback hiccups on slower internet connections. The big headline is a roughly 30% improvement in compression efficiency over AV1, YouTube's existing video format. That doesn't guarantee every video will use 30% less data, but it could make streaming a little easier on both internet connections and data allowances.
What is AV2, and why should viewers care?
YouTube is changing how its Home page works, giving viewers more control over what shows up there and making some of the app’s most-used sections easier to reach. Custom Feeds are now replacing the existing topic chips for eligible users, while YouTube is also testing a redesigned top bar on mobile that moves Subscriptions closer to the Home feed.
YouTube first started experimenting with Custom Feeds earlier this year, letting you type out what you wanted to watch and turning that request into its own stream of recommendations. Now, the feature is starting to look less like a side experiment and more like something YouTube actually wants people to use as part of their everyday Home page.