💬 Quoted…​​ “Before 2030.”

• Professor Uğur Şahin and Dr. Özlem Türeci, the German husband and wife who co-founded Covid vaccine maker BioNTech, said recent breakthroughs have made them confident that mRNA vaccines targeting cancer could be produced by the end of the decade.

⌚📱 Stat of the Day: The Apple Watch attach rate – aka the amount of iPhone owners with an Apple Watch – reached 30% in the first half of this year, its highest-ever level, per a new report from Counterpoint Research.

🌎 Around the World: China unexpectedly delayed the release of its Q3 GDP figures, originally scheduled for this morning at 10 am ET, as the country’s 20th National Congress continues in Beijing.

🤯 Did You Know?... In order to get the rights to the song “Hard Knock Life” from Annie, Jay-Z wrote a letter to the copyright holders explaining how important the play (and song) was to him, telling them about the time he won a writing contest to see Annie when he was in 7th grade. There’s just one slight caveat: by Jay-Z’s own admission, he made the whole thing up.

📖 Worth a Read: How Xi Jinping made himself unchallengeable → (BBC News)