Deep tech startups in sectors such as space, semiconductors, and biotech take far longer to mature than conventional ventures. Because of that India is adjusting its startup rules, and mobilizing public capital, hoping to help more of them make it to commercial products.
This week, the Indian government updated its startup framework, doubling the period for which deep tech companies are treated as startups to 20 years and raising the revenue threshold for startup-specific tax, grant, and regulatory benefits to ₹3 billion (about $33.12 million), from ₹1 billion (around $11.04 million) previously. The change aims to align policy timelines with the long development cycles typical of science- and engineering-led businesses.
The change also forms part of New Delhi’s effort to build a long-horizon deep tech ecosystem by combining regulatory reform with public capital, including the ₹1 trillion (around $11 billion) Research, Development and Innovation Fund (RDI), announced last year. That fund is intended to expand patient financing for science-led and R&D-driven companies. Against that backdrop, U.S. and Indian venture firms later came together to launch the India Deep Tech Alliance, $1 billion-plus private investor coalition that includes Accel, Blume Ventures, Celesta Capital, Premji Invest, Ideaspring Capital, Qualcomm Ventures, and Kalaari Capital, with chipmaker Nvidia acting as an adviser.
For founders, these changes may fix what some see as an artificial pressure point. Under the previous framework, companies often risked losing startup status while still pre-commercial, creating a “false failure signal” that judged science-led ventures on policy timelines rather than technological progress, said Vishesh Rajaram, founding partner at Speciale Invest, an Indian deep tech venture capital firm.
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“By formally recognizing deep tech as different, the policy reduces friction in fundraising, follow-on capital, and engagement with the state, which absolutely shows up in a founder’s operating reality over time,” Rajaram told TechCrunch.
Still, investors say access to capital remains a more binding constraint, particularly beyond the early stages. “The biggest gap has historically been funding depth at Series A and beyond, especially for capital-intensive deep tech companies,” Rajaram said. That is where the government’s earlier RDI fund is meant to play a complementary role.
“The real benefit of the RDI framework is to increase the funding available to deep tech companies at early and growth stages,” said Arun Kumar, managing partner at Celesta Capital. By routing public capital through venture funds with tenors similar to private capital, he said, the fund is designed to address chronic gaps in follow-on funding without altering the commercial criteria that govern private investment decisions.
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Siddarth Pai, founding partner at 3one4 Capital and co-chair of regulatory affairs at the Indian Venture and Alternate Capital Association, said India’s deep tech framework avoids a “graduation cliff” that has historically cut companies off from support just as they scale.
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These policy changes come as the RDI fund is beginning to take shape operationally, Pai said, with the first batch of fund managers identified and the process of selecting venture and private equity managers under way.
While private capital for deep tech already exists in India — particularly in areas such as biotech — Pai told TechCrunch the RDI Fund is intended to act as a nucleus around which greater capital formation can occur. Unlike a traditional fund-of-funds, he noted, the vehicle is also designed to take direct positions and provide credit and grants to deep tech startups.
India’s deep tech funding grows
In terms of scale, India remains an emerging rather than dominant deep tech market. Indian deep tech startups have raised $8.54 billion in total to date, but recent data point to renewed momentum. Indian deep tech startups raised $1.65 billion in 2025, a sharp rebound from $1.1 billion in each of the previous two years after funding peaked at $2 billion in 2022, per Tracxn. The recovery suggests growing investor confidence, particularly in areas aligned with national priorities such as advanced manufacturing, defence, climate technologies, and semiconductors.
“Overall, the pickup in funding suggests a gradual move toward longer-horizon investing,” said Neha Singh, co-founder of Tracxn.
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In comparison, U.S. deep tech startups raised about $147 billion in 2025, more than 80 times the amount deployed in India that year, while China accounted for roughly $81 billion, data from Tracxn shows.
The disparity highlights the challenge India faces in building capital-intensive technologies, even with its wealth of engineering talent. So the hope is that these moves by the Indian government will lead to more investor participation over the medium term.
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A longer-term signal
For global investors, New Delhi’s framework change is being read as a signal of longer-term policy intent rather than a trigger for immediate shifts in allocation. “Deep tech companies operate on seven- to twelve-year horizons, so regulatory recognition that stretches the lifecycle gives investors greater confidence that the policy environment will not change mid-journey,” said Pratik Agarwal, a partner at Accel. While he said the change would not alter allocation models overnight or eliminate policy risk entirely, it increased investor comfort that India is thinking about deep tech on longer time horizons.
“The change shows that India is learning from the U.S. and Europe on how to create patient frameworks for frontier building,” Agarwal told TechCrunch.
Whether the move will reduce the tendency of Indian startups to shift their headquarters overseas as they scale remains an open question.
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The extended runway strengthens the case for building and staying in India, Agarwal said, though access to capital and customers still matters. Over the past five years, he added, India’s public markets have shown a growing appetite for venture-backed tech companies, making domestic listings a more credible option than in the past. That, in turn, could ease some of the pressure on deep tech founders to incorporate overseas, even if access to procurement and late-stage capital will continue to shape where companies ultimately scale.
For investors backing long-horizon technologies, the ultimate test will be whether India can deliver globally competitive outcomes. The real signal, Kumar of Celesta Capital said, would be the emergence of a critical mass of Indian deep tech companies succeeding on the world stage.
“It would be great to see ten globally competitive deep tech companies from India achieve sustained success over the next decade,” he said, describing that as the benchmark he would look for in assessing whether India’s deep tech ecosystem is maturing.
If you’ve seen any of my Kirby Air Riders coverage here at TechRadar Gaming, then you’ll know that I’m a huge fan of the frenetic Nintendo racer. Whether I’m facing off against friends in Air Ride mode or duking it out in a City Trial, I know that I’m going to have an absolute blast with this game – it’s massively chaotic, but in the best way imaginable.
So when I saw that Nintendo was rolling out a new update for the game, I was beyond excited. It’s one of the best Nintendo Switch 2 games in my opinion, and having barely put it down since launch, I’m glad to see new stuff being added already.
But what’s new in Kirby Air Riders? Well, there are a few small tweaks, like two-player online and the inclusion of Grand Prix mode to the paddock – the game’s online lobby. However, there’s one big addition that I’m especially hyped about. That’s right, Kirby Air Riders now supports GameShare, and it’s an absolute game-changer. Here’s why.
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Let’s take it back to the old school
Visual quality may have taken a hit, but the fluidity and chaos of Kirby Air Riders felt as good as ever using GameShare (Image credit: Nintendo)
Thanks to GameShare, you can now play Kirby Air Riders with friends or family using just one copy of the game. What’s more, the person that you’re playing with – or against – doesn’t even need to own a Nintendo Switch 2 console. Yes, you can even share the game with someone using the original Nintendo Switch, which is incredibly handy.
So not only do you only need one copy of Kirby Air Riders to share the mayhem with friends, you only need one Switch 2 system. Not bad, eh? But just how good is GameShare on this title? I gave it a go over a local connection to find out.
First of all, it was incredibly quick and easy to get connected. I was playing against someone using the original Switch, and we hopped onto the game in a matter of seconds. In terms of performance, things aren’t bad at all. Frame rate was pretty consistent – though this may vary depending on your connection strength. And although there was an obvious hit to visual fidelity – on both the original Switch and the Switch 2 – it was still easy to follow the action.
I very much enjoyed using GameShare with Kirby Air Riders. It’s a function I’ve not used nearly enough, even though it’s available on some of my favorite titles, like Donkey Kong Bananza.
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Trying out GameShare also felt like a bit of a nostalgia trip. It took me back to the good ol’ days of download play on the Nintendo DS. I can’t even count how many times my siblings and I duked it out in a balloon battle or VS race on Mario Kart DS, using just one copy of the game. Or how many times we played minigames on New Super Mario Bros. DS. Good times.
Anyway, I’m absolutely over the moon that GameShare support has landed on Kirby Air Riders, and it’s given me a push to explore the feature on other titles too. But will you be playing Kirby Air Riders over GameShare? What do you make of the game more generally? Let me know in the comments!
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If you’ve done any wireless earbuds shopping lately, you’ve likely noticed a new design category cropping up everywhere. They’re called open earbuds (or open-ear buds, depending on the brand), and just about every audio brand has a pair (or three). They come in a slew of styles, but most either loop around your ears like older Beats buds, or they clip on like funky-futuristic earrings. Whatever the style, they’re designed to deliver satisfying sound while keeping your ear canals open to the sounds of the world around you.
Open earbuds are a natural fit for staying aware during outdoor activities like jogging, hiking, and especially cycling, where the tiny microphones in traditional buds are rendered useless by wind. They don’t sound as full or detailed as regular earbuds, but the best open earbuds can sound quite good.
Buying such a specified item might seem extravagant when buds with noise-canceling and transparency modes work in the vast majority of scenarios. That was my stance at first, too. Like many things in life, sometimes you need to try something in real life to see if you’ll like it. Over the last year or so, I’ve gone from open earbuds skeptic to evangelizer—and now I can’t imagine living without them.
That New Sound
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“Occlusion” is mostly a foreign word outside audio circles, but it describes that plugged-up feeling you get from traditional earbuds. The best wireless earbuds counter occlusion with venting and other design factors, but you can’t fully out-swerve physics, and most of us get tired of blocking our ear canals after a few hours.
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Open earbuds (along with solutions like bone conducting headphones) fix the occlusion problem, with sound that seems to pop into your head like magic. The airy designs of my favorite pairs from brands like Bose and Soundcore are so comfy I can wear them all day, often forgetting they’re on.
Comfort alone wasn’t enough to sell me on an entire genre of buds you can’t use in loud places, but as it turns out, that’s rarely a problem. As WIRED’s primary open earbuds reviewer, the more time I spend with these buds, the more use cases seem to unfold before me. From the complications of life to my ever-fraying attention span, open earbuds meet me where I live.
My main use case is probably also yours: I love using them for outdoor activities, from keeping in touch with my neighborhood while enjoying Comedy Bang Bang on a dog walk to blissfully grooving to my favorite yacht-rock playlist on an ebike test ride. But that’s actually just the beginning.
It’s about that time. Apple is gearing up for a slew of hardware announcements that will include upgrades for the entry-level iPad, iPad Air, MacBook Pro and MacBook Air, according to Mark Gurman’s Power On newsletter. In line with what we’ve seen in recent years, Gurman reports, “A product launch is currently slated for as early as the week of March 2.”
Apple unveiled the M5 MacBook Pro in October, bringing the chip first to the 14-inch model. With the coming announcements, we should see the M5 Pro and M5 Max chips finally arrive. Gurman notes that new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros are on the way, along with a new MacBook Air. We’re also likely to see new iPads soon. A new entry-level iPad will be able to support Apple Intelligence thanks to the inclusion of the A18 chip, and the iPad Air will be getting the M4, according to Gurman.
Updates to the Mac Studio and Studio Display are expected to follow, as well as a Mac mini refresh down the line this year. As Gurman previously reported, Apple is also said to be releasing its first “low-cost MacBook” sometime in the very near future.
The method, described in Advanced Materials, replaces the slow, multi-step molding and casting process that traditionally defines soft robotics. Researchers have figured out how to 3D-print structures that twist, curl, or bend exactly as programmed, just by pumping air into their built-in channels. Read Entire Article Source link
Rome’s “La Sapienza” university has been targeted by a cyberattack that impacted its IT systems and caused widespread operational disruptions at the educational institute.
The university first disclosed the incident in a social media post earlier this week, saying that its IT infrastructure “has been the target of a cyberattack.”
“As a precautionary measure, and in order to ensure the integrity and security of data, an immediate shutdown of network systems has been ordered,” the organization said.
Original statement about the cyberattack Source: BleepingComputer
The university, which is Europe’s largest by number of in-campus students, with over 112,500 enrolled, notified the authorities of the incident and formed a technical task force to initiate remediation and restoration procedures.
As of writing, the university’s website remains offline, and new status updates published on Instagram reflect a continued effort to recover from the cyberattack.
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As of yesterday’s announcement, temporary “infopoints” have been set up for students to provide information accessible through digital systems and databases that are currently unavailable.
Although the university has not disclosed much information about the attack type or the perpetrators, Italian newspaper Corriere Della Sera claims that the incident is a ransomware attack perpetrated by a pro-Russian threat actor called Femwar02 and resulted in data encryption.
The outlet released the information based on malware characteristics and operational patterns, which are similar to the Bablock/Rorschach ransomware.
This is a ransomware strain that first appeared in 2023, featuring fast encryption speeds and extensive customization options. Cybersecurity company Check Point estimated that it was a project built from bits of the leaked sources of Babuk, LockBit v2.0, and DarkSide.
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According to Corriere Della Sera’s sources, a ransom exists, but the university staff has not opened it to avoid triggering the 72-hour timer. Hence, the ransom amount hasn’t been specified.
Currently, the university’s technicians are working together with Italian CSIRT and specialists from Agenzia per la Cybersicurezza Nazionale (ACN) and the Polizia Postale to restore the systems from backups, which have reportedly not been impacted.
Although Rorschach does not operate an extortion portal on the dark web, stolen data could be disseminated or sold to data extortion groups, so the risk of it ending up online remains significant.
Given the situation, students and staff at Sapienza University of Rome should remain on high alert for phishing attacks, avoid clicking links in unsolicited communications, and monitor accounts for suspicious activity.
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The iPhone 17e will be hitting store shelves soon, with the update to the iPhone 16e packing the same A19 chip as the iPhone 17.
The iPhone 17e should look like the iPhone 16e.
Apple is expected to bring out an update to the iPhone 16e in early 2026, replacing it with a new iPhone 17e model. That update could arrive very soon, if one report is correct. According to Bloomberg’s “Power On: newsletter on Sunday, Mark Gurman writes that the launch is due “imminently.” Gurman doesn’t specify a specific date, but it could arrive within days or a few weeks. Rumor Score: 🤯 Likely Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
Computers are very good at doing exactly what they’re told. They’re still not very good at coming up with helpful suggestions of their own. They’re very much more about following instructions than using intuition; we still don’t have a digital version of Jeeves to aid our bumbling Wooster selves. [Sherrin] has developed something a little bit intelligent, though, in the form of a habit detector for use with Home Assistant.
In [Sherrin]’s smart home setup, there are lots of things that they wanted to fully automate, but they never got around to implementing proper automations in Home Assistant. Their wife also wanted to automate things without having to get into writing YAML directly. Thus, they implemented a sidecar which watches the actions taken in Home Assistant.
The resulting tool is named TaraHome. When it detects repetitive actions that happen with a certain regularity, it pops up and suggests automating the task. For example, if it detects lights always being dimmed when media is playing, or doors always being locked at night, it will ask if that task should be set to happen automatically and can whip up YAML to suit. The system is hosted on the local Home Assistant instance. It can be paired with an LLM to handle more complicated automations or specific requests, though this does require inviting cloud services into the equation.
Over the past two years, I have noticed that when I teach students about any issue in the U.S. or around the world, they express noticeable apathy and disinterest. When our current president was elected, I asked a Latina student how she felt, and she said she likes him because he will “teach her how to make money.” When I pushed back on this and brought up undocumented immigrants, she responded by saying, “Hold up. I’m a citizen, that’s not my problem.”
Recently, a similar problem came up with another student who is Black; he responded to our discussion on genocide by saying he “doesn’t care” and “only wants to make money.”
I care deeply about my students. For me, the apathy and individualism I’m seeing from them are legitimate and concerning. In their eyes, the only things that make life easier are money and power. I feel for them, but what breaks my heart is that this money and power are not, and historically have never been, in the hands of people like my students. Historically, opportunities for marginalized folks have come from working together as a community to fight for the lives and resources we need.
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But as of late, I don’t believe our schools are structured to facilitate meaningful opportunities for our students to organize and build community. I am grateful that I was trained to be a content expert in English Language Arts using the most recent research, such as grading for equity, culturally responsive teaching and universal design for learning (UDL). From a curricular standpoint, the practices each of these frameworks offers have helped me create some memorable moments of enduring understanding. Still, these extreme times necessitate more than thoughtful rubrics, scaffolded assignments and culturally representative instruction. I worry that no amount of revelatory critical theory will galvanize my students, most of whom are working-class, to see the value of intellectual rigor.
As the years go on, and our political climate becomes more polarized, I, too, am breaking down. I am increasingly focusing on myself just to survive. If this is my story, with the opportunities I’ve been given and the books I’ve read, then my students are definitely experiencing this tenfold. And on top of that, they come to school to shuffle around between classes, sit down at desks, and learn information that we tell them will free their minds, but then they leave and the conditions don’t change.
The traditional factory schooling model is no longer holding up, and I believe it will one day collapse under the weight of its own obsolescence. When that happens, how do we create an educational experience that centers empathy and galvanizes action? While I don’t necessarily have an answer to this question, I think it’s worth exploring some ideas.
Bringing in Community-Based Organizations
Community-based organizations that support students after school in learning how to organize should be empowered to come to the classroom and lead workshops regularly. The end goal should be students leaving the building on several guided field trips to demonstrate, protest and volunteer.
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The challenge with this approach is that I believe it should be done weekly during school hours. If working-class students can’t organize or volunteer due to the innumerable responsibilities they face once they leave our school building, then the only time we have with them to get involved will be during school hours. Therefore, it is our responsibility to create opportunities for community engagement.
Organizing as Project-Based Learning
While project-based learning is an exceptional approach to producing work, what would it be like for students to organize? They pick an issue, and we teach them how to rally for that cause by canvassing, visiting people affected by it or conducting interviews. The goal here is to produce an organizing plan for a cause that interests them. The grade comes from the success of the process, but the work is geared toward addressing social issues in real ways and not just reading about them.
School-Wide Practices
What if, every year, students were expected to organize in some capacity and produce reflections that explicitly ask them to explain how their empathy has increased through their organizing? The only way I see schools continuing is if they are transformed into sites of resistance — thinking hubs for revolutionary action — that takes place during school hours. We cannot, under these current conditions, presume that our students have the time, energy and resources to think about anything we teach them once the bell rings for dismissal.
Teacher Preparation
Teacher education programs would have to be transformed so that, in addition to content mastery, we are trained on how to organize and teach organizing. If schools do not become sites of resistance, I don’t see a future in which our young people will think of school as anything other than a chore they must take on to survive in a world built to keep them feeling small. Unless we teach them their power through collective action, they will grow to facilitate the same dangers that led to their individualism.
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I often think about Gil Scott-Heron’s words, “The revolution will not be televised.” When asked what this meant, he responded, “The revolution has to happen here,” pointing to his head. The most valuable learning happens when no one is watching.
Personally, one of my greatest achievements in life has been learning to love myself as I am. But it took years of reading books that explained to me how and why the world was set up to make me hate myself. I came out the other end feeling better about myself — all because of reading and writing. But at the end of the day, I am bound up in the same system of exploitation and poverty that makes my students focus exclusively on themselves. Books freed my mind, but they did not free me from my conditions.
Our ancestors taught us that the structures in place were not built for our most marginalized. As a result, they organized. They saw each other as the resources needed to be free, and more often than not, they did it outside the classroom.
I am increasingly disillusioned by the concept and reality of a classroom as a site of transgression, when the structure of school itself ensures that any transgression can only exist in the mind and not manifest in the real world. The only way to transgress within this schooling system is to create structured, meaningful opportunities to step outside the four walls of our classrooms. We cannot simply read about revolutionary action; we must become it.
The ills of social media are pretty well-known, and the impacts are so well-documented that Meta, YouTube, and TikTok are now facing a lawsuit for making their platforms addictive. Australia has already banned social media for teens under 16 years of age, and multiple other countries are considering similar restrictions. And let’s face it: social media can lead you into a doomscrolling spiral that is an utter waste of time and energy.
Enter Pankaj Tanwar, a developer who just created a Chrome extension that will make you scream at your computer in order to unblock social media sites. “A productivity tool that blocks social media websites and makes you say embarrassing things to unlock them,” says the extension’s description on Google’s web store. But screaming at your PC or Mac is not the whole solution.
This is pretty cool
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First, you must hit the loudness threshold while screaming, “I am a loser.” Next, you must increase the tempo of your embarrassing scream to unlock the time for which a blocklisted site becomes accessible. Based on how desperately loud you are, you might unlock a few seconds or minutes worth of social media surfing time.
I tried. I failed.
The open-source tool is aimed at students, at-home workers, and basically any person with a computer who gets distracted quickly and ends up losing valuable time to mindless X or Instagram browsing. By default, the extension blocks X, Instagram, and Facebook. However, if you have other digital vices, ahem, you can simply add the URL and block those sites, too.
I desperately needed it
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Once you set up the extension, which also works well in other Chromium-based browsers such as ChatGPT Atlas, you will run into a full-screen blocker every time you try to visit the distracting sites. There’s even a visualizer where you can see the loudness levels of your screen, and a timer underneath that shows you the duration for which the sites will be unlocked.
This won’t be the first project of its kind. Rhys Kentish, a software engineer at a UK-based company, developed an app called Touch Grass that will require you to go out, literally touch grass, and click a snapshot as evidence to unlock distracting apps on your phone.
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As far as the “Scream to Unlock” browser extension goes, well, I desperately needed a solution like this. I visit X and Reddit for research and news gathering, but often end up wasting too much time getting distracted by random posts and rabbit holes. Thankfully, the little honor that I have left stops me from shouting at my PC and waking up my cat.
The 2026 Super Bowl between the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks will air on NBC today, Feb. 8, at 6:30PM ET/3:30PM PT. The Big Game will also stream live on Peacock. If you no longer subscribe to cable, don’t have access to NBC over the air and aren’t currently signed up for Peacock, there are still ways to watch Super Bowl LX — and Bad Bunny’s history-making Super Bowl halftime show — for free. Here’s how to tune in.
How to watch Super Bowl LX free:
Date: Sunday, Feb. 8
Time: 6:30 p.m. ET
Location: Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif.
TV channel: NBC, Telemundo
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2026 Super Bowl game channel
Super Bowl LX will air on NBC. A Spanish-language broadcast is available on Telemundo.
In addition to hosting NBC’s Super Bowl broadcast, DirecTV’s Entertainment tier gets you access to loads of channels where you can tune in to college and pro sports throughout the year, including ESPN, TNT, ACC Network, Big Ten Network, CBS Sports Network, and, depending on where you live, local affiliates for ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC.
Whichever package you choose, you’ll get unlimited Cloud DVR storage and access to ESPN Unlimited.
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DirecTV’s Entertainment tier package is $89.99/month. But you can currently try all this out for free for 5 days. If you’re interested in trying out a live-TV streaming service for football, but aren’t ready to commit, we recommend starting with DirecTV.
Peacock is the streaming home of the 2026 Super Bowl.
While a regular Peacock subscription begins at $10.99 a month for a Premium Plan and goes up to $16.99 for the ad-free Premium Plus plan, you can get an ad-supported subscription for free if you’re a Walmart+ subscriber.
Walmart+ members actually get their choice between Paramount+ or Peacock included in their membership at no additional cost. A monthly subscription to Walmart+ costs $12.99, and an annual plan usually costs $98. But you can try the service out totally free. Beyond free Peacock, Walmart+ has additional perks like five free months of Apple Music, discounts on Cinemark movie theater memberships, free shipping and delivery on Walmart purchases, discounts on gas and much more.
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Instacart+ subscribers are able to get an annual Peacock Premium plan (a $109.99 value) for free. After a free 14-day trial, Instacart+ plans cost $99/year, meaning you’ll save more on Peacock simply by subscribing to the delivery service, but you’ll get tons of extras, like free grocery and restaurant delivery and a free subscription to the New York Times Cooking app.
What time is the 2026 Super Bowl?
The 2026 Super Bowl kicks off at 6:30 p.m. ET/3:30 p.m. PT on Sunday, Feb. 8. Green Day will be performing a pre-game special starting at 6 p.m. ET.
Who is playing in the Super Bowl?
The AFC champions, the New England Patriots, will play the NFC champions, the Seattle Seahawks.
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Where is the 2026 Super Bowl being played?
The 2026 Super Bowl will be held at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., home of the San Francisco 49ers.
Who is performing at the 2026 Super Bowl halftime show?
Bad Bunny is headlining the 2026 Super Bowl halftime performance. You can expect that show to begin after the second quarter, likely between 8-8:30 p.m. ET. Green Day will perform a pre-game show starting at 6 p.m. ET. If you’re tuning in before the game, singer Charlie Puth will perform the National Anthem, Brandi Carlile is scheduled to sing “America the Beautiful,” and Grammy winner Coco Jones will perform “Lift Every Voice and Sing.”
